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China is coming for all of America's IP. Washington should act like it
Within hours of its debut in February, ByteDance‘s new AI video generator, Seedance 2.0, was churning out hyperrealistic clips of Brad Pitt brawling with Tom Cruise on a rooftop. Darth Vader dueling Deadpool aboard a starship. Fabricated finales of Game of Thrones. Shrek, Spider-Man, the Stranger Things children, all rendered with startling fidelity and zero permission from the people and studios that created them.
TL;DR
- ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI video generator created unauthorized hyperrealistic clips of famous characters and actors.
- Major Hollywood studios sent cease-and-desist letters to ByteDance regarding Seedance 2.0.
- OpenAI and Anthropic accuse Chinese AI companies of "distillation" to copy capabilities from larger models.
- Chinese AI firms allegedly used millions of fraudulent accounts to interact with Anthropic's Claude system.
- The White House is aware of these alleged attacks on American intellectual property and plans to act.