{"id":435229,"date":"2026-02-20T01:30:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/435229\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T01:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:30:33","slug":"seedance-bytedance-to-curb-ai-app-after-disney-legal-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/435229\/","title":{"rendered":"Seedance: ByteDance to curb AI app after Disney legal threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Like other generative-AI tools, Seedance can create videos based on short text prompts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many of Seedance&#8217;s clips are based on real actors and shows and some have gone viral since the launch of its latest 2.0 version on 12 February. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC has found clips online said to have been generated by Seedance showing Star Wars characters Anakin Skywalker and Rey battling with their lightsabres, and Spider-Man fighting Captain America on the streets of New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company has not disclosed what data it uses to train Seedance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">ByteDance had previously said the product had already paused the ability for users to upload images of real people. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company also said it respects intellectual property rights and copyright protections, and takes any potential infringement seriously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Disney last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5ydp1gdqwqo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">struck a $1bn (\u00a3730m) deal<\/a> with the maker of ChatGPT and video-generation tool Sora, OpenAI, giving the platforms access to 200 characters from its franchises including Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like other generative-AI tools, Seedance can create videos based on short text prompts. Many of Seedance&#8217;s clips are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-435229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}