{"id":466094,"date":"2026-02-13T10:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/466094\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:49:09","slug":"its-likely-over-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/466094\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Likely Over for Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA stunningly realistic AI<\/a> video of Tom Cruise<\/a> fighting Brad Pitt<\/a> has one top Hollywood screenwriter warning the industry is about to face major challenges due to the new and rapidly evolving technology, while the MPA has blasted the company behind the model. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe 15-second video (watch it below) depicts the two A-listers trading blows on a rooftop. The video was posted two days ago by Irish filmmaker\u00a0Ruairi <\/a>Robinson, who was Oscar-nominated for a short film in 2002. <\/p>\n

\n\tRobinson pointed out his video was created by simply entering a two-line prompt into Seedance 2.0, which is owned by the Chinese parent company of Tiktok, ByteDance. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe MPA called on the company to curb its \u201cinfringement\u201d of copyrighted works. \u201cIn a single day, the Chinese AI service Seedance 2.0 has engaged in unauthorized use of U.S. copyrighted works on a massive scale,\u201d said Charles Rivkin, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association. \u201cBy launching a service that operates without meaningful safeguards against infringement, ByteDance is disregarding well-established copyright law that protects the rights of creators and underpins millions of American jobs. ByteDance should immediately cease its infringing activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tScreenwriter Rhett Reese (Deadpool & Wolverine, Zombieland) spotted the video and posted some extensive thoughts on X. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI hate to say it,\u201d Reese said<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s likely over for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen a fan snarked the video still \u201clooks like shit,\u201d Reese replied, \u201cIn next to no time, one person is going to be able to sit at a computer and create a movie indistinguishable from what Hollywood now releases. True, if that person is no good, it will suck. But if that person possesses Christopher Nolan\u2019s talent and taste (and someone like that will rapidly come along), it will be tremendous.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJust in case anyone took his \u201ctremendous\u201d comment as being optimistic about the impact of the technology on the industry, Reese added, \u201cTo clarify: I am not at all excited about AI encroaching into creative endeavors. To the contrary, I\u2019m terrified. So many people I love are facing the loss of careers they love. I myself am at risk. When I wrote \u2018It\u2019s over,\u2019 I didn\u2019t mean it to sound cavalier or flippant. I was blown away by the Pitt v Cruise video because it is so professional. That\u2019s exactly why I\u2019m scared. My glass-half-empty view is that Hollywood is about to be revolutionized\/decimated. If you truly think the Pitt v Cruise video is unimpressive slop, you\u2019ve got nothing to worry about. But I\u2019m shook.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tReese also noted: \u201cHollywood has long been a gatekeeper that keeps young\/poor people away from creative levers. When a young person with no capital sets out to impress Hollywood, they will use tools like these. And young Chris Nolans will be among them. And amazing stuff will result. I suspect (could be wrong) that many screenwriters are using AI heavily in their writing, and many execs are using it heavily in their analysis of writing. So, hilariously, all the people are sitting back watching as AI critiques what it just created.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe comments come as a AI insiders have been sounding the alarm<\/a> of the impact of their technology, particularly its impact on jobs. <\/p>\n

\n\tEntrepreneur\u00a0Matt Shumer wrote a disturbing viral post<\/a>\u00a0titled \u201cSomething Big Is Happening\u201d comparing our current moment to the months just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe experience that tech workers have had over the past year, of watching AI go from \u2018helpful tool\u2019 to \u2018does my job better than I do,\u2019 is the experience everyone else is about to have,\u201d he wrote. \u201cLaw, finance, medicine, accounting, consulting, writing, design, analysis, customer service \u2026 If you tried ChatGPT in 2023 or early 2024 and thought \u2018this makes stuff up\u2019 or \u2018this isn\u2019t that impressive,\u2019 you were right \u2026 The models available today are unrecognizable from what existed even six months ago.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stunningly realistic AI video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt has one top Hollywood screenwriter warning the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[182,13158,28,4520],"class_list":{"0":"post-466094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-brad-pitt","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-tom-cruise"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}