ChatCut’s viral “Amazon link to UGC ad” with Seedance 2.0 demo draws scrutiny over how it works

One post from ChatCut blew up on X yesterday, racking up over 750,000 views in no time. They shared a demo video showing something pretty mind-blowing: you drop an Amazon product link into their app, and it spits out a complete UGC-style ad, no extra work required.

The example used this portable pressure washer from a brand called Stupid Frog — a collapsible, cordless thing with a 12-liter tank, wheels, and a flashlight on the gun. In the generated clip, a young woman unfolds the washer in her driveway, fills it up, attaches a nozzle, and washes a black SUV. She talks casually in the voiceover about how it’s perfect for apartments with no outdoor tap — compact, powerful, and easy for a full car wash.

Overlays in the video hammer the point home: “This video was generated entirely by Seedance 2.0 working with an OpenClaw agent in ChatCut. This was the Amazon item whose link I sent to the agent.” ChatCut claimed their agent crawls the page, pulls product details and images, then feeds them straight into ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 model, which is also going viral right now.

Of course, the video isn’t perfect, and there are some obvious signs that it was generated with AI, such as one scene where the woman apparently had three hands. Apart from that, plenty of comments were actually positive and called this a game-changer.

But not everyone is convinced. 

Salma Aboukar posted a LinkedIn screenshot from someone in AI Partnerships at ByteDance stating, “Hi, we haven’t released the API to anyone.” Her thread picked up steam, with replies calling it dodgy.

Some linked the ChatCut founder to past defenses of Higgsfield AI during its controversies. Others flagged no real account deletion — just revoke Gmail access manually. 

Comments under Salma’s post have some theories that it’s automating the public Jimeng site with bots or reverse-engineered calls, running multiple accounts to generate videos. That would explain the hit-or-miss success rate since some said it works 20% of the time, and why overloads hit so hard.

It’s a split crowd right now. The automation is genuinely impressive; chaining crawling, asset prep, and video gen this seamlessly could change simple product ads forever, especially for e-commerce sellers. But if it’s built on unofficial scraping, ByteDance could shut it down anytime. Paid users might end up frustrated.

Nevertheless, feel free to share your thoughts on the AI-generated UGC video in the comments below.

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