Seedance, Kling and the Chinese AI Video Ecosystem

China proposed new rules to label AI content, but enforcement is failing, driven by economic priorities and geopolitical propaganda

Seedance, Kling and the Chinese AI Video Ecosystem A Regulatory Puzzle Nick Corvino Feb 13, 2026 54 1 8 Share It’s been a big week for Chinese AI video. ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 and Kuaishou’s Kling 3.0 are going viral. Seedance probably takes the cake, being promoted for smoother motion, stronger scene coherence, and watermark-free downloads. My favorite trend so far: people making videos of themselves cooking Lebron James. On the other hand, the Cyberspace Administration (CAC) just announced its pre-Lunar New Year crackdown by removing more than 540k pieces of illicit AI content on Douyin, W

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