On February 26, ByteDance Japan declared that it had finalized adjustments to the service of its recently launched video generation AI model, Seedance 2.0, with the aim of tightly managing the potential for copyright violations in the content it produces. Shortly after the model's introduction, concerns arose that it could produce unauthorized videos showcasing popular anime intellectual property (IP) characters, including those owned by Disney. The Japanese government has urged the involved companies to implement corrective actions, and users might also encounter demands for compensation or face legal consequences. The Walt Disney Company has already dispatched a legal notice, accusing ByteDance of copyright infringement. This event underscores the conflict between the lifelike capabilities of generative AI and the imperative for copyright safeguarding, with data compliance and content filtering systems emerging as essential benchmarks for the feasibility of such products.
