Six months after a fully AI-generated viral video of Tom Cruise battling Brad Pitt took the internet by storm, the tech behind the ripoff has been tweaked to protect Hollywood intellectual property and likenesses. The Motion Picture Association on Monday said that it had reached a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Chinese tech giant ByteDance that will provide “strong guardrails” within its tech and platforms that will protect Hollywood. The agreement covers Seedance, the AI video model that generated the Cruise vs. Pitt video, as well as Seedream 5.0 Lite, TikTok, CapCut and Dreamina, among others. The launch of Seedance and…
