On Tuesday, OpenAI rug-pulled its AI video creation tool, Sora — but it didn’t feel like a loss. If anything, it felt like a small win for AI-free creativity. However, that didn’t last long, with TikTok owner ByteDance announcing the global rollout of its Seedance 2.0 video creation tool, making its CapCut AI video generation app the first platform to jump on board.
CapCut’s blog post revealed that the new audio and video model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, is already rolling out to the platform, with ByteDance stating that the model will allow creators to draft, edit, and sync video and audio content using simple text prompts, images, or reference videos.
And while that’s great news for CapCut and AI video generation, it’s a step back for those who thought the AI-slop tide was just starting to turn.
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Seedance 2.0 is going straight to CapCut
Meet your favorite new slop generator
Seedance 2.0 brings a wide range of AI features that make me wonder how much more “slop” I’m going to see now. For starters, the video generation model can create full-fledged scenes without any reference images. You describe your scene in a few words, and it comes to life. This makes it convenient for anyone without prior knowledge or editing skills to simply use a chatbot, generate a detailed prompt, feed it into Seedance 2.0, and churn out more and more AI-generated content for the internet to react to.
It can also render realistic textures, movement, and lighting, which creators can use to edit AI-generated content or enhance their own footage. The model also has strong text and graphic rendering capabilities, meaning it’s not just limited to content without written elements and will likely bring the AI slop effect to fitness content, product reviews, and even action-focused content.
Currently, you can only make clips of up to 15 seconds across six aspect ratios, but I’d expect this to change in the near future.
However, ByteDance hasn’t overlooked safety and claims the model won’t be able to generate videos from images or footage that contain real faces. There will also be an invisible watermark to help identify content created with the model when it’s shared online. So while it may end up fueling a slop-making factory, some guardrails are in place.
ByteDance waited for the perfect moment
Sora’s death paved the way
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Seedance isn’t new to the AI video generation space. In fact, it already has a strong following in its launch market, China. What it lacks is access to a global audience, making it difficult to displace tools like Sora, and making the timing all the more interesting
The timing is all down to OpenAI killing Sora.
Since the dominant global AI video tool was binned, ByteDance has the perfect opportunity to take the throne as the primary brain-rot creator. The tool is currently being rolled out in phases, starting with CapCut users in Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. This gradual release likely reflects the company’s efforts to address copyright concerns, which have been a recurring issue with tools like these.
Is AI Slop that bad?
Yes, it is.
I have to say that the tool itself isn’t bad. Seedance 2.0 is extremely capable and offers a completely different way to boost creativity and productivity. AI video generation can be useful for things like texture and lighting touch-ups, but it shouldn’t be a replacement for human-made art.
And if I’m being honest, that human essence of creativity is something current AI video models still struggle to replicate. Despite newer, more advanced models, it’s still easy to identify slop from everything else, since it’s mostly the same stuff with different characters, rather than true creativity. Perhaps in the future, the line between human-made and AI-generated content will blur even further, which isn’t an outcome I’d personally want.
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Android, iOS, Web
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OpenAI
Price model
Free with optional subscription
