Chinese AI video generators continue to be used to create unauthorized content featuring Hollywood intellectual property, according to a Deadline column. The latest focus is Hailuo 3, released by MiniMax, which has gone viral outside the U.S. and EU through third-party access despite not being directly available to users in those regions. Justine Moore, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, generated a clip of Dwight and Jim from The Office using a simple H3 text prompt in Krea, an online studio providing access to multiple generative AI models. Moore’s prompt went through MiniMax’s servers, suggesting copyright safeguards are not being properly enforced. This occurs while MiniMax defends a lawsuit from Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros., which alleges Hailuo “pirates and plunders copyrighted works on a massive scale.” The studios point to MiniMax promoting the model using AI videos of Deadpool, Wolverine, and The Joker on its official YouTube account. MiniMax denies the allegations, but the superhero videos have been scrubbed from its account. A company representative said the full model would not be available in the U.S. because of “ongoing copyright-related legal proceedings specifically concerning generative video AI.” The column notes that ByteDance’s Seedance 2.5 has not been used to mine Hollywood content to the same extent, indicating ByteDance has raised its safeguards.