Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke released a short film on Chinese New Year’s Eve produced using ByteDance’s AI video generator Seedance 2.0, marking a high-profile collaboration with the company’s AI unit Doubao. The five-and-a-half-minute film features a conversation between a “real” Jia and his AI avatar, both rendered using the tool. It places the director inside scenes from Platform (2000) and Mountains May Depart (2015) as they debate artistic ownership. Jia, who had previously expressed inter