ByteDance Faces Hollywood Backlash Over AI Video Tool

Establishment-critical narrative

AI video tools like Seedance 2.0 represent mass theft of creative labor, training on copyrighted works without consent or compensation to build systems that directly replace human artists. The technology threatens to systematically devalue human authorship while concentrating wealth in tech companies, creating economic insecurity for creators and undermining the foundational purpose of copyright law to protect and incentivize original creative work.