US EditionSenators tell ByteDance to 'immediately shut down' Seedance AI video app
U.S. senators cite copyright and personal likeness risks with Seedance 2.0 videos featuring real actors and characters, prompting ByteDance to pause its global rollout.
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Senators tell ByteDance to shut down Seedance 2.0 AI video app 'immediately'
After ByteDance suspended the global rollout of its new Seedance 2.0 AI video generator on the weekend, US senators have now told the company to "immediately shut down" the app. "Seedance 2.0 poses a direct threat to the American intellectual property system and, more broadly, to the constitutional rights and economic livelihoods of our creative community," Senators Marsha Blackburn and Peter Welch wrote in a letter to the company. The letter r…
U.S. Senators Demand ByteDance Shut Down Seedance 2.0 Over Copyright and Likeness Violations
Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) have called for ByteDance to immediately cease operations of its AI video-generation tool Seedance 2.0, accusing the Chinese tech giant of enabling widespread copyright infringement and unauthorized use of personal likenesses. In a letter first obtained by CNBC on Thursday, the bipartisan duo described Seedance 2.0 as […] The post U.S. Senators Demand ByteDance Shut Down Seedance 2.0 Over …
Senators Demand ByteDance Shut Down Seedance 2.0 AI Video App, Citing National Security Risks
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is demanding that ByteDance immediately shut down Seedance 2.0, a new AI-powered video generation app that quietly launched in the United States. The senators argue the app violates the spirit — and possibly the letter — of the law that forced TikTok’s partial divestiture. And they’re not being subtle about it. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), along with several colleagues, sent …
ByteDance has seen how the hostilities have escalated after announcing its video generator by IA Seedance 2.0, to the point that the US government is calling for the closure of the platform. Just this weekend, it became known that the Hollywood film industry was behind the paralysis of the Seedance 2.0 launch in the rest of the world. The latest version of the AI video generator is only available in China. An older version of the model, Seedance…
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