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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-12T17:52:04.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nIf you were online yesterday and have any presence in Hollywood, someone probably texted you the viral AI clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting on a roof.\n\nIt set X ablaze, with debate ranging from the idea that \"It's over,\" to \"this is a name and likeness infringement,\" to \"Let me know when they can do this at scale.\"\n\nPlus everything in between.\n\nLet's dive in.\n\n* * *\n\n## Viral Fight (In More Ways Than One)\n\n> \n\nThe clip originated from a Chinese company and was then tweeted out by filmmaker Ruairi Robinson.\n\nThe 15-second clip depicts the two A-list stars trading blows in a desolate, concrete setting. The footage is not a deepfake in the traditional sense of pasting faces onto stuntmen, but rather a fully generative sequence of the two famous actors fighting.\n\nAgain, this is from a Chinese company, so Brad and Tom can't sue easily, because if an American company did this, it would be illegal and have a ton of blowback and precedents that were violated.\n\nSo, is this thing a big deal?\n\n## Giving Credit Where Credit is Due\n\nDespite some uncanny valley stuff, the fluidity and lighting of the fight sequence are startlingly close to the quality of a high-budget studio action movie.\n\nIt's cool that there are multiple angles available, and the sweeping camera is kinetic.\n\nBut at 15 seconds, it is way too short to be anything but a proof-of-concept for how rapidly generative video technology is evolving.\n\nIt's interesting to see the technology grow, but I need to reiterate that 15 seconds is not that impressive. _Being close_ to the quality we expect is not _being_ the quality we expect. And with a lot of AI, seeing tech do 90% of the job is interesting, but to close the final 10% gap is actually pretty hard.\n\nWe haven't seen AI scale as fast as predicted, and it's very expensive to get the computing power they think they need to scale it.\n\nWhat you saw posted is nothing more than a reel you were cool scrolling past while on the toilet.\n\nAnd it's fine to entertain butts in the bathroom, but that's a far cry from getting them into theater seats.\n\nTo do that, this tech has a long way to go.\n\n## So, It's Not Over?\n\nLook, if I worked in post, videos like this would worry me. The idea of using two sentences to generate a fight scene between stars is alarming.\n\nBut if you pick this apart, it's two famous people in all black on a pretty boring roof of a nondescript city fighting.\n\nMy suspicion is that when you bring in things like naturalistic costume, easily identifiable landmarks, and have to scale it to be of theatrical quality, this stuff falls apart.\n\nI also thought the fighting felt a little more like TV and not movies, and by that I mean not professionally choreographed, and with too many edits.\n\nAlso...it looked like they were pulling their punches, which is kind of funny when no real people are involved.\n\nAgain, it's that last 10% of getting it right that really matters to audiences, and that seems like it will take hundreds of millions to get closer to.\n\nIt's tech worth keeping an eye on, maybe even learning more about, but I don't know that I believe it will be adopted and take a ton of jobs that soon.\n\n## Summing It All Up\n\nThese are just my thoughts on it. It was interesting to see people freaking out, but again, until I see a story sustained for at least five minutes and some action that doesn't feel like it was cut by someone on clean 80s coke, I am not going to sweat it.\n\nLet me know what you think in the comments.",
  "title": "Viral AI Fight Between Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt Sparks Alarm and Awe"
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