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Why an AI video of Tom Cruise battling Brad Pitt spooked Hollywood
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Actor Tom Cruise (left) and actor-producer Brad Pitt at the premiere of F1 The Movie in London in June 2025.
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Derrick Bryson Taylor
NEW YORK – It took only a 15-second clip of American actors Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop at twilight to draw swift outrage, and sizeable fear, from Hollywood over the last few days.
The widely circulated Feb 10 video was created by Irish director Ruairi Robinson using Seedance 2.0, a powerful AI video generation tool owned by Chinese technology company ByteDance.
