{"id":196640,"date":"2026-03-17T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/senators-tell-bytedance-to-shut-down-seedance-2-0-ai-video-app-immediately\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T07:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:30:17","slug":"senators-tell-bytedance-to-shut-down-seedance-2-0-ai-video-app-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/senators-tell-bytedance-to-shut-down-seedance-2-0-ai-video-app-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators tell ByteDance to shut down Seedance 2.0 AI video app &#8216;immediately&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/senators-tell-bytedance-to-shut-down-seedance-20-ai-video-app-immediately-112146241.html\">Senators tell ByteDance to shut down Seedance 2.0 AI video app &#8216;immediately&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/senators-tell-bytedance-to-shut-down-seedance-20-ai-video-app-immediately-112146241.html\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/senators-tell-bytedance-to-shut-down-seedance-20-ai-video-app-immediately-112146241.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-17 07:21:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>US Senators Marsha Blackburn and Peter Welch have demanded immediate shutdown of ByteDance&#8217;s Seedance 2.0 AI video generator due to its perceived threats to American intellectual property and constitutional rights.<\/li>\n<li>The senators are concerned about AI companies like ByteDance using copyrighted materials from artists and actors without consent, as demonstrated by several fake AI generated scenes in the Seedance app.<\/li>\n<li>The Senators&#8217; letter criticizes the recent pledge by ByteDance to respect intellectual property rights after suspending the global rollout of Seedance 2.0, calling it a delay tactic.<\/li>\n<li>Filmmakers, including the Motion Picture Association, have joined the call to shut down Seedance 2.0 after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from ByteDance.<\/li>\n<li>In response to the pressures from the government and industry, senators Blackburn and Welch have announced a bill that would help artists protect their intellectual property and access training records used for AI models.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators tell ByteDance to shut down Seedance 2.0 AI video app &#8216;immediately&#8217; https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/senators-tell-bytedance-to-shut-down-seedance-20-ai-video-app-immediately-112146241.html Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/MkosRJQ1Ss_cvHuaQqxMrQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD04MDA-\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2026-02\/37b3ab60-1263-11f1-bcff-069e6e3e5b53","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196642,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196640\/revisions\/196642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}