The race to dominated AI video generation heated up this month when ByteDance, the Chinese company that launched TikTok, introduced its new video generator, Seedance 2.0, to beta users. 'So far, Seedance 2.0 is impressing AI enthusiasts, many of whom say it is more advanced than offerings from companies such as OpenAI," noted CNET after the Seedance launch. The video generator definitely spooked Hollywood--especially after a 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out emerged, Now ByteDance says it will restrain its AI video-making tool.

  Peter Kuper is, luckily, an artist who needs no introduction. I say this because his long and varied career is impossible to summarize in a paragraph. Whether celebrating his life-long fascination with the universe of bugs, in Insectopolis, or satirizing the political nature of human inhumanity in World War III Illustrated, Peter’s work begins with research—scientific, literary, political, psychological and you name it. For this reason, I asked him to share his...