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887 ByteDance adds watermarking and IP guardrails to Seedance 2.0 as it begins cautious global rollout

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Ana Maria Constantin @ The Next Web · 03/31/2026 17:35 EDT

Six weeks ago, a video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt on a rooftop went viral. It was, of course, not real. It was generated by Seedance 2.0, ByteDance’s AI video model, and it set off a firestorm that drew cease-and-desist letters from six major Hollywood studios, a formal denunciation from the Motion Picture Association, […]
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