The Business: The Hellmouth Fears The Terminator

Last week ByteDance released Seedance 2.0. You can tell how good it really is by the reactions.

Seedance 2.0 took over social media!

People generate WILD videos that go extremely viral

Here are TOP 7 recent examples👇

1/ Brad Pitt vs Tom Cruise pic.twitter.com/36X64IMuBF

— René Remsik (@aitrendz_xyz) February 13, 2026

That reaction? Telling. Hollywood knows.

Hollywood demands Seedance 2.0 removal after AI Video goes viral.

The Motion Picture Association issued a takedown demand to ByteDance after Seedance 2.0 generated a photorealistic Tom Cruise vs Brad Pitt fight scene from a short prompt.

Director Ruairi Robinson's clip has… pic.twitter.com/oTwYzsdO47

— 𝚉𝚊𝚎𝚜𝚊𝚛 (@zaesarius) February 13, 2026

You've got people saying "This is crap!"

One: No, it's not. Well over 80% of people watching these things will not notice that this is AI-generated; they will, at most, think of this as a SFX showcase to drum up software sales and business contracts.

Two: This is as bad as it will be. It only gets better from here, and the rumors of v3.0 on Chinese social media state that single-prompts go to 10 minutes at a time in length. Nine of those is a 90 minute movie, which remains the ideal length that exhibitors want for maximum revenue potential

Three: They will not be able to regulate or lawfare the threat away; this is a global issue, so the rules are actually defined by the party that cares least about IP law- and that means Russia, China, Southeast Asia, and the Stans between them. China, in particular, wipes its ass with US and European IP law. They already have no problem with hosting content that violates it; they will be glad to host and stream AI-generated content that does so.

As we are already seeing with prose/comics (an AI-generated LN already won awards) and Tabletop, we shall see with Vidya and film/TV: total disruption of the existing market and social State of Play. Go ahead, go to YouTube; there's a flood of AI-generate Star Wars fanfilm shorts, which will only get longer and better over the next few years, which itslef is a follow-on from (very formulatic) Human Fuck Yeah audiobook channels (increasingly with accompanying illustrations).

"But no one-"

They are already finding audiences and making mad bank, starting with niches where conventions are already so rigid that they might as well be a Madlib template (i.e. ChickSmut of all sorts, LitRPG, etc.) and the workflow already exists to automate the entire process once you tool up the (virtual) factory.

As it is with books, comics, music, and art so it is now coming to video and and software which means Vidya is next.

By 2030 no one will notice the difference, and Normies TODAY already do not care. They say they do; their Revealed Preferences show that they don't.

This is why Hollywood freaked out. They see it and know they can't stop it.

You can adapt or you can get crushed by it.