Hollywood has been in a feud with TikTok's former majority owner over the company's AI models training on copyrighted material without permission or compensation.
Now ByteDance promises to strengthen copyright protections in its AI tools Seedance, a text-to-video generation tool, and Seedream, which produces images using text prompts, writes the Los Angeles Times.
"Today's agreement illustrates our belief that copyright is a cornerstone of the film and television industry and reinforces our commitment to protecting creative content," said MPA Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin.
Hollywood media giants have long seen AI technology as a threat to the industry, where film and television companies are competing with cheaper artificial content. It was one of the stumbling blocks in the 2023 writers' and actors' strike.
