AI videos create buzz for ByteDance after US TikTok deal

TikTok's new video creation model, called Seedance 2.0, has been launched in a limited test mode in China -- but hyper-realistic synthetic footage is already flooding social networks worldwide. Some compared them to the output of OpenAI's Sora 2 text-to-video app, which last year sparked copyright concerns over its depiction of characters from famous cartoons and games such as South Park and Pokemon.