The Irish director behind a viral AI clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt grappling over the death of Jeffrey Epstein says he made it “as a dumb joke” — but concedes it landed like a warning shot across Hollywood’s bows.
Ruairi Robinson, a Dublin-born sci-fi film-maker, typed a two-line prompt into Seedance 2.0, a generative video tool from the Chinese group ByteDance. Minutes later, it spat out a 15-second sequence with lifelike versions of the actors. Pitt’s character shouts: “You killed Jeffrey Epstein, you animal. He was a good man.” Cruise replies: “He knew too much about our Russia operations. He had to die — and now you die too.” Cruise then forces him to the…