Why this video of the brawl between “Brad Pitt” and “Tom Cruise” is worrying Hollywood

Why this video of the brawl between “Brad Pitt” and “Tom Cruise” is worrying Hollywood

By Nell Geraets
Publication Date: 2026-02-27 18:00:00

Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, two of Hollywood’s biggest stars, have a heated argument on the roof of a ruined building.

“You killed Jeffrey Epstein, you animal,” Pitt yells at Cruise as he fends off several punches.

It looks real – to real. A scene from an upcoming big-budget action movie? No, these aren’t the Hollywood stars we’ve come to know and love – they’re mere facsimiles, machine-generated for our viewing pleasure.

Brad Pitt fights Tom Cruise over Jeffrey Epstein? Seedance 2.0 has made it even harder to tell what is real or fake.

Over the past two weeks, a wave of similarly edgy and cinematic videos have been released by Seedance 2.0, a new advanced AI model, causing widespread concern in creative industries worldwide.

What is Seedance 2.0?

Seedance 2.0 is a new generative AI (GenAI) model developed by ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant behind…