"In a new viral AI video, Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise pummel each other on a rooftop in a cinematic action sequence. It's not a trailer for a new blockbuster, and it's not actually Pitt and Cruise, though it looks a lot like them. The video is so realistic, in fact, that the clearest sign it's made with AI is the dialogue."
"The reaction from Americans is reminiscent of the buzz around DeepSeek, a Chinese company that unveiled an AI reasoning model in January last year that rivaled OpenAI's ChatGPT and other top models, stunning the biggest names in Silicon Valley and ratcheting up the competition between the United States and China in the race to dominate AI innovation. Seedance 2.0 is another shot across the bow of American AI companies."
"The scene was created using Seedance 2.0, a new AI video-generation model released Thursday by ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok. The tool and the hyper-realistic videos of Hollywood actors and characters that users are creating with it have gone viral in China and are now catching the attention of Americans. "It's happening fast," Elon Musk said in response to a video generated using Seedance and posted to X, a reference to the speed at which artificial intelligence is advancing."
Seedance 2.0, released by ByteDance, can generate hyperrealistic videos from text, image, audio, and video inputs. Users have produced viral deepfakes of Hollywood actors and characters, including a rooftop fight featuring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise and a Walter White impersonation. The model gives creators fine control over lighting, shadows, and camera movement, producing visuals so convincing the dialogue often reveals AI origins. Reactions include alarm from industry stakeholders, viral commentary on social platforms, and comparisons to earlier Chinese AI breakthroughs such as DeepSeek. The technology raises copyright, legal, and international competition concerns.
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