A viral clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt battling on a rooftop is impressive, but it's an impressive lie. The AI-generated clip has Hollywood freaking out. Immediately after the clip's release, the Motion Picture Association and SAG-AFTRA condemned the technology and ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns it.
The video was posted by Oscar nominated Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson, who said that the video was created by simply entering a two-line prompt into a program called Seedance 2.0.
The video exploded when "Deadpool & Wolverine" writer Rhett Reese spotted the clip and posted his thoughts on X. "I hate to say it. It’s likely over for us," Reese wrote.
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