ByteDance Is Hollywood’s Latest AI Boogeyman | Analysis

It’s almost becoming routine. An AI video featuring scary-realistic recreations of A-list actors goes viral, once again stoking fears that Hollywood is doomed. 

It happened in September with OpenAI’s release of Sora 2, which had the entertainment community up in arms. Last week, Hollywood freaked out again when an AI-generated clip of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise throwing down went viral on X, garnering 1.7 million views and eliciting reactions from creatives like “Deadpool” writer Rhett Reese, who tweeted, “I hate to say it.