{"id":290233,"date":"2026-02-18T17:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/290233\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:10:11","slug":"shazam-star-zachary-levi-gobsmacked-at-seedance-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/290233\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Shazam!’ Star Zachary Levi “Gobsmacked” At Seedance 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tZachary Levi<\/a> is shocked at the sophistication of Seedance 2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Shazam<\/a>! star has been posting about the ByteDance<\/a> AI model in recent days, sharing user-generated videos and exclaiming that he is \u201cgobsmacked\u201d at the technology.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAre. We. Paying. Attention. Yet??\u201d he asked when re-posting a video from The Dor Brothers, AI creators who used Seedance to make what they described as a $200M movie in one day.<\/p>\n

\n\tLevi said he was not necessarily impressed by Seedance 2.0\u2019s final product, rather he was marveling at the speed of progress of generative AI models.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t share posts about the progress of AI content because I like it, or even think it\u2019s, at this moment, on par with human creativity and artistry. I share them as continuous updates in the evolutionary process of what will eventually become INDISCERNIBLE from human-made art and entertainment,\u201d he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou can call it slop all you want. And most of it is still that. But only for now. Three years ago, \u2018Will Smith Eating Spaghetti\u2019 was nightmarish fever-dream. Now, it\u2019s essentially found footage of actual Will Smith eating actual spaghetti. Based on what we\u2019re seeing currently, what does the NEXT three years have in store?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLevi continued: \u201cThis is where we are. Right now. It\u2019s not going to get any worse. It will only keep getting better. We can collectively bury our heads in the sand, or we can do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSeedance 2.0 has gone viral in large part because it has been used to create fan-made videos of superheroes \u2014 Shazam! among them. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe tech has spooked Hollywood with ByteDance receiving legal threats from the major U.S. studios, including DC Studios\u2019 parent Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a>. The Chinese company has promised to improve \u201csafeguards\u201d on Seedance 2.0<\/a> after the full-throated backlash.<\/p>\n

\n\tByteDance told Deadline that the company \u201crespects intellectual property rights and we have heard the concerns regarding Seedance 2.0.\u201d It continued: \u201cWe are taking steps to strengthen current safeguards as we work to prevent the unauthorised use of intellectual property and likeness by users.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zachary Levi is shocked at the sophistication of Seedance 2.0. The Shazam! star has been posting about the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[610,430,156,111,139,69,158549,83159,160982],"class_list":{"0":"post-290233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bytedance","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-seedance-2-0","15":"tag-shazam","16":"tag-zachary-levi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}