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896 Senators tell ByteDance to shut down Seedance 2.0 AI video app 'immediately'

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Steve Dent @ Engadget · 03/17/2026 07:21 EDT

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 reflects an increasing worry in government about AI companies tr

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