TikTok-Linked AI Video Tool Debuts With a Catch for the US
The race to dominate AI video tools is heating up. After Chinese company Kuaishou launched Kling 3.0 last week, ByteDance – the company behind TikTok – has now opened its new video generator, Seedance 2.0, to beta users.
It is still unclear when the general public will be able to access Seedance 2.0 and if it will be available in the United States, given that the company has had to abandon most of its TikTok. possession due to security and privacy concerns. So far, Seedance 2.0 is impressing AI enthusiasts, many of whom say it is more advanced than offerings from companies such as OpenAI, which offers video generation through its Sora2 AI tool. A representative for ByteDance did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET’s parent company, filed a lawsuit in April against OpenAI, alleging that it violated Ziff Davis’ copyrights in the training and operation of its AI systems.)
What’s different with Seedance 2.0
According to information available on various ByteDance websites, Seedance 2.0 is an AI video model that will be available on several of its tools, including Dreamina, an authoring software suite from its CapCut video editing service.
Seedance can bring together multiple types of clips, such as videos, audio files, and images, generate videos based on a thumbnail of a person’s face, and perform tasks that other video generators struggle with, such as maintaining consistent characteristics of characters and objects and displaying unified fonts and text.
Some of the examples that have made their way onto social media include realistic dance scenes, martial arts fights, explosive battles, and entire short films generated from a text prompt.
Other AI software such as TopView AI and Atlas Cloud appear to be planning to integrate Seedance 2.0 into their video generator suites. On the Atlas Cloud website, the Seedance 2.0 AI generation is expected to arrive later this month.
Video generators are proving popular, but companies that make these AI tools have faced legal and other issues. Disney and other companies sued image and video company AI Midjourney last year for copyright issues. Kuaishou was recently fined by the Chinese government for failing to combat pornography on its AI platforms.
