ByteDance's AI Videos Are Scary Realistic. An image created with Bytedance's AI tool Seedream, via the platform Kapwing, of Minions playing basketball. This week, OpenAI released its latest AI video generation model, Sora 2, advertising it as a big leap forward for the space. As Sora hits the public, it will have to compete for market share in a crowded market, including with a major competitor that is rapidly gaining steam: the Chinese company ByteDance, which owns TikTok . In the past few months, ByteDance released Seedance, an AI video generator that many users are already calling the best in the world, and a new version of Seedream, an elite image model.

Note: This is Part I of a series on equipping your family fight back against fake news online. Fake news is chipping away at our trust in the government, the media, and in one another. And, because our kids spend much so much time in the online space, it's more important than ever to help them understand how to separate truth from fiction. How dangerous is the spread of misinformation? According to one study, 75% of people who see fake news believe it's real.