Both Disney and Paramount-Skydance have sent cease and desist letters to China's ByteDance accusing them of "blatant infringement" of intellectual property rights after the recent spate of hyper-realistic Seedance 2.

Nearly half of Americans fell for false online claims last year, particularly those featuring AI-generated content. According to news reliability website NewsGuard, 46% believed at least one false claim between June and December last year - and at times the rate was even higher.