The purpose of the looking at the future...is to disturb the present!

Gaston Berger (1896-1960), francuski futurolog

Seedance 2.0 might be gen AI video’s next big hope, but it’s still slop

An AI-generated image of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting in a desolated city.

When Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson began uploading a series of short clips created with Seedance 2.0 - TikTok developer ByteDance's newest video generation model - it was hard to deny that the footage was much more impressive than what we've seen from other gen AI outfits. The clips' star (a digital duplicate of Tom Cruise) looked a lot like the real thing as it fought Brad Pitt, humanoid robots, and zombies. And the characters moved with a complex fluidity almost passing for choreography and amplified by kinetic "camerawork."

Gen AI enthusiasts love to proclaim that the traditionally produced entertainment industry is cooked, and some of …

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https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/883615/seedance-bytedance-tom-cruise-brad-pitt-jia-zhangke