On February 10, filmmaker Ruairí Robinson made a bold claim about. “It was a 2 line prompt in seedance 2. If Hollywood is cooked the guys are right, maybe Hollywood is cooked the guys are cooked too I don’t know,” he wrote. The post was accompanied by a video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt performing a fight scene together. The clip attracted attention for its apparent sophistication; it seemed well-choreographed, competently filmed, and appropriately lit, all elements that other AI video tools have struggled to convincingly replicate. If Robinson’s claim were true, it would be a significant leap forward in AI video technology. The sort of thing that AI hype-men have been touting for years and which – until, if Robinson is to be believed, at present – turned out to be nothing more than snake oil. There’s just one problem: It’s probably still snake oil.
This was a 2 line prompt in seedance 2. If Hollywood is cooked the guys are right, maybe Hollywood is cooked the guys are cooked too, I don’t know. pic.twitter.com/dNTyLUIwAV
–Ruairi Robinson (@RuairiRobinson) February 11, 2026
Aron Peterson, a writer and software developer who has also worked in film production, post-production, and visual effects, posted a blog on his website: Shokunin Studiocalling Robinson’s story into question. “The claims that were made immediately displeased me,” Peterson wrote. “Other demos of the Seedance model had the usual errors we expect from AI video generators. [but this one didn’t].” Peterson explained in part, “AI video generators are really bad at simulating realistic camera movements, especially handheld shaky cameras,” but in the Cruise/Pitt video, “we can see the camera movement.”
So Peterson started researching Seedling 2.0the new AI tool from TikTok developer ByteDance which is already infringing copyright on a large scalewhich Robinson used to create the video. Peterson “hopped on the Seedance website and it only took 10 seconds to find green-screen footage of two stuntmen performing the same fight choreography we see in the Cruise vs. Pitt scene,” he said. He also posted a comparison of the two videos on YouTube.
“Was the input really just a 2 line prompt or was it actually 2 lines, green screen video footage and face references as well?” » asked Peterson. “The evidence appears to show that the stunts were filmed from multiple angles, a clip had to be generated for each angle, and then ultimately all of the clips were stitched together for marketing purposes.” Peterson’s testimony implies that the Cruise/Pitt fight scene was not entirely AI-generated; instead, it was probably just face replacement and background creation superimposed on already existing images. As TV writer David Slack said Blue sky“In other words, like most AI hype, it was a scam.”
