The viral "AI" fight between Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise might not have been AI at all.

Few things have united sharp-elbowed Hollywood quite like the threat of AI, at least when it comes to copyright issues.

In February 2026, the release of Seedance 2.0 from Chinese company Bytedance marked a significant shift in the generative AI ...

A viral AI-generated clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting has ignited concern in Hollywood over the future of the industry. According to The Guardian, the 15-second video was created by Irish ...

Over the past week, a slew of cinematic videos of celebrities and characters in absurd situations have gone viral online, with one commonality –– they were created using a new artificial intelligence ...

Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt appear to grapple on a collapsing rooftop in a viral video in which they argue over the death of Jeffrey Epstein – but the explosive clip is entirely AI-generated, and ...

The post was accompanied by a video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt performing a fight scene together. The clip gained attention for its apparent sophistication; it appeared well-choreographed, ...

A clip made with ByteDance’s new Seedance tool racked up millions of views—and prompted warnings from studios over copyright ...

“The toys are back and this time, Buzz Lightyear, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang’s jobs are challenged when they come face-to-face with Lilypad (voice of Greta Lee), a brand-new tablet device ...

The clip was reportedly generated from a 'two-line prompt' fed into ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI video generator. But it may ...

Netflix sends cease-and-desist to ByteDance over Seedance AI video tool, alleging willful copyright infringement.

Just last week, ByteDance launched its AI video platform, Seedance 2.0, and ever since, AI-generated videos using copyrighted materials have continued to go viral. Studios like Disney, Paramount, ...