{"id":355064,"date":"2026-03-24T06:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/355064\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:43:11","slug":"seedance-2-0-could-this-uncannily-good-ai-make-blockbuster-films-that-are-worth-watching-science-climate-tech-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/355064\/","title":{"rendered":"Seedance 2.0: Could this uncannily good AI make blockbuster films that are worth watching? | Science, Climate & Tech News"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you spend much time on social media, you’ll have surely noticed the surge in AI-generated video filling up your feed.<\/p>\n

We were promised superintelligence but instead got “AI<\/a> slop” – clips-for-clicks of people and pets doing funny, diverting, but ultimately pointless things.<\/p>\n

Or worse.<\/p>\n

Deepfake videos of politicians or celebrities have improved in line with the advancing sophistication of AI video-generating models.<\/p>\n

A surge of supposedly “educational” AI-generated video on platforms like YouTube Kids, say campaigners, threatens to misinform, or at best confuse, young minds.<\/p>\n

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\n Is this an AI ‘breakthrough moment’?<\/p>\n

Then there’s the film and TV industry, understandably furious that their stories, actors and characters appear to be being used to train, without permission or remuneration, AI video models.<\/p>\n

Models so powerful they can spit out an algorithmic pastiche of their work at a fraction of the cost and effort, threatening to upend their industry.<\/p>\n

But are we starting to see watchable, arguably worthwhile, AI-generated content out there?<\/p>\n

It was a young, blonde, American Instagram influencer that stood out to me. No different to any other of her TikTok generation, except for the fact that she can travel through time.<\/p>\n

Chloe vs History<\/a> – and you’ll have to watch our full video report later today to find out who “Chloe” really is – strikes a new balance between entertainment and education.<\/p>\n

While such accounts might be at the least controversial end of the AI video debate, the new model behind them isn’t.<\/p>\n

Read more:
Late actor to star in new film<\/a>
AI actor ‘not designed to steal jobs’<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Seedance<\/p>\n

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\n Seedance can create convincing action-packed video scenes. Pic: seedance2.ai<\/p>\n

Seedance 2.0 is uncannily good.<\/p>\n

Developed by TikTok<\/a>‘s Chinese parent company ByteDance, it may have the advantage of having been trained on billions of TikTok users’ posts.<\/p>\n

But as with all large AIs, it’s clearly been trained on video its developers don’t own.<\/p>\n

US film studios are understandably afraid that AI, and a Chinese one at that, is profiting from them – then coming for their profits.<\/p>\n

Though perhaps human creativity isn’t dead.<\/p>\n

In making this report, we learned AI isn’t very good at making watchable video on its own. A disruptive tool, most definitely. A destructive one? Not so sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you spend much time on social media, you’ll have surely noticed the surge in AI-generated video filling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-355064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}