As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in Hollywood is on the rise, despite the extreme backlash from fans and creatives within the industry, Prime Video’s Freevee is the latest company under fire for using the software to create a poster for the timeless 1957 courtroom drama 12 Angry Men. Despite audience and creatives’ fears that AI will take over Hollywood and put everyone out of a job, the software doesn’t have a great track record for success. In the case of the image generation, the software has a tenuous grasp of human anatomy and often produces nightmarish figures that make Twilight’s CGI baby look photo-real. Add to that its incapability to correctly produce proportionate faces and hands, and AI has become one of the funniest controversies in modern movie making.
Freevee used AI to produce a haunting thumbnail for Sidney Lumet’s classic 12 Angry Men. Read More