Disney is extremely mad at China's new plagiarism machine

The Disney corporation has issued a scathing cease-and-desist letter to Chinese tech firm ByteDance this week, accusing the TikTok creator of running a “virtual smash-and-grab” on the company’s intellectual property with its new generative AI video maker Seedance. Per Axios, the letter cites numerous instances in which the Seedance 2.0 technology—which just launched on Thursday of this week—has already been used to create videos of “Spider-Man, Darth Vader, Star Wars’ Grogu (Baby Yoda), Peter Griffin from Family Guy...