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After Tom Cruise's AI fight video goes viral, SAG-AFTRA condemns Seedance 2.0: "This is unacceptable and undercuts the ability of human talent"

Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Want to add more newsletters? Every Friday GamesRadar+ Your weekly update on everything you could ever want to know about the games you already love, games we know you're going to love in the near future, and tales from the communities that surround them. Every Thursday GTA 6 O'clock Our special GTA 6 newsletter, with breaking news, insider info, and rumor analysis from the award-winning GTA 6 O'clock experts. Responsible AI development demands responsibility, and that is nonexistent here." SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin, who is known for his work in The Goonies and Stranger Things, had his face used in one of Seedance's earlier videos, in which his Lord of the Rings character Samwise Gamgee suggests to Frodo that they "take the Eagles straight to Mount Doom." According to Variety, the House of Mouse sent a cease and desist letter to ByteDance general counsel John Rogovin on Friday, February 13, too, as it claimed the company was wrongfully building "a pirated library of Disney's copyrighted characters from Star Wars, Marvel, and other Disney franchises, as if Disney's coveted intellectual property were free public domain clip art." The action prompted ByteDance to commit to halting its AI-generated Hollywood rip-offs, per Deadline.