ByteDance responds to copyright infringement concerns with Seedance 2.0

A new AI video model from China has flooded the internet with copyrighted content — causing so much backlash that its owner, ByteDance, has promised to “strengthen current safeguards.” Over the past week, Seedance 2.0 made waves in tech circles as one of the most advanced video models ever released, putting it in direct competition with the likes of OpenAI’s Sora 2, Google’s Veo 3.1 and Kuaishou’s Kling 3.0. Launched last week as the latest version of ByteDance’s AI video generation model, Seedance 2.0 is currently available primarily to mainland Chinese users through its Jimeng AI app. It is not…