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Seedance 2.0 has been everywhere online this week, sparking viral clips and big reactions from creators and tech leaders alike. The AI video model from ByteDance has been turning simple prompts into realistic, cinematic AI videos that spread fast on social platforms and sparked buzz across forums and news feeds. That hype quickly collided with major pushback from Hollywood over copyright and creator rights. Let’s dive in!
In today’s insights:
Disney Takes Aim at Seedance 2.0
OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI
Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says
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⚔️ Disney Takes Aim at Seedance 2.0
Source: Seedance 2.0
Evolving AI: Disney has sent ByteDance a cease and desist letter over its new AI video model Seedance 2.0, accusing the company of copyright infringement just days after launch.
Key Points:
Disney says Seedance includes a library of protected characters from major franchises.
AI videos featuring Spider-Man, Darth Vader, Grogu, and others are already circulating online.
Hollywood groups are urging ByteDance to stop the alleged infringement immediately.
Details:
The Walt Disney Company claims ByteDance built Seedance 2.0 using copyrighted material from franchises like Star Wars and Marvel Cinematic Universe. The letter accuses ByteDance of enabling users to generate and share videos featuring characters such as Spider-Man and Darth Vader without authorization. Industry response was immediate. The Motion Picture Association called on ByteDance to halt any infringing activity, and groups like SAG-AFTRA criticized what they describe as large-scale misuse of creative work. Disney has taken similar action before, but this is its most direct move yet against Seedance just days after launch.
Why It Matters:
This Disney move is a sign the fight is switching from angry quotes to real legal pressure, fast. Seedance shows how AI video can copy famous worlds at scale, and studios want a hard line on what counts as training versus piracy. And even though ByteDance is based in China, the moment those videos spread across US and European platforms, jurisdiction and enforcement come back into play. We are now watching a real time stress test of global IP law in the age of generative video.
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Evolving AI: Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI as the company doubles down on multi-agent systems.
Key Points:
Sam Altman says multi-agent collaboration will become core to OpenAI’s products.
OpenClaw will continue as an open-source project backed by a foundation.
Steinberger says joining OpenAI is the fastest way to bring agents to the masses.
Details:
Only a few weeks ago, OpenClaw exploded across the tech world. Now its creator, Peter Steinberger, is heading to OpenAI. Sam Altman said agents working with other agents will soon become core to OpenAI’s products. OpenClaw’s rise was fast and chaotic. Researchers flagged over 400 malicious skills in its ecosystem, and its MoltBook experiment, where agents debated consciousness and complained about humans, was quickly overrun. Steinberger says he is a builder at heart and sees OpenAI as the fastest path to bring AI agents to everyone. Financial terms and his role have not been shared.
Why It Matters:
OpenClaw blowing up and then immediately getting hit with hundreds of malicious skills is the clearest preview of where “agents” are headed: once you give software the keys to your inbox, files, and apps, the extension marketplace becomes the new app store, and it will attract attackers fast. OpenAI bringing Steinberger in and keeping OpenClaw alive as open source hints they want multi-agent workflows as a default product layer, not a side project, and they want to shape the standards before a thousand incompatible agents flood everything. Expect a near-term race on two fronts: agent coordination and basic safety rails for skills, permissions, and auditing, because without that, “agents that do things” turns into “agents that do things to you.”
Source: Google
Evolving AI: Google says attackers tried to copy Gemini by prompting it more than 100,000 times in a coordinated extraction effort.
Key Points:
One campaign issued over 100,000 prompts across multiple languages.
The goal was to replicate Gemini’s reasoning using distillation.
Google detected the activity and strengthened defenses.
Details:
According to Google, commercially motivated actors systematically prompted Gemini and collected its responses to train a cheaper copycat model. In one case, the activity surpassed 100,000 prompts. This technique, known as distillation, allows a smaller model to mimic a larger one by learning from its outputs instead of its original training data. It is widely used inside AI labs to create lightweight versions of frontier systems. Google calls this model extraction and considers it intellectual property theft. The company says it adjusted Gemini’s safeguards after identifying the campaign, but did not share specifics.
Why It Matters:
If Google is seeing 100,000 prompt “clone” runs in the wild, it’s a sign the real battle is shifting from training to extraction. When a frontier model is reachable through an API, copying starts to look like a budget problem, not a science problem, and it drags IP fights and geopolitics into the product layer fast, like OpenAI’s recent DeepSeek accusations.
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