Hollywood’s having a full meltdown because ByteDance dropped Seedance 2.0, an AI that can whip up photorealistic Tom Cruise vs. Brad Pitt bridge brawls faster than you can say ” residuals.” Screenwriters are tweeting “it’s over for us,” actors are clutching pearls over deepfakes of Will Smith fighting spaghetti monsters (again), and the MPA’s screaming copyright infringement like it’s the end of cinema. From horrifying 2023 blobs to Mandarin Kanye-Kim dramas in two years—AI just speedran the apocalypse for human creatives. Cue dramatic music… or just let the bots compose it.

New AI Video Generator Is So Impressive That It’s Scaring Hollywood