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While in the taxi on the way to go and see this movie at the cinema, I learned that it contains several AI generated images. I sat and watched it anyway because my ticket was prepaid and I couldn't afford to waste that taxi fare either. I'm genuinely crying as I write this. I'm ashamed that my time and money has gone towards funding and enabling this.

I'm a stereotypical starving artist and I can't afford to go out very often. I took art commission work specifically for the purpose of funding my travel to watch this absolute insult. I scraped coins together to be slapped in the face and shown just how little my craft is valued anymore.

Some people on social media have been asking the question that maybe the producers had no choice due to budget constraints, and that's factually not true. Graphic design, photo editing, and artwork was also frequently featured alongside the AI images.

Edit: I've come across a couple of instances of people reposting my review to the tune of ''this guy needs to touch grass'', and I'm really not sorry for having a passionate reaction to paying to sit down and have ''illustration isn't a valued craft and is dangerously close to being replaced by technology that's built on ripping it off for the sake of convenience and profit'' blasted into my eyeballs. I made peace with the idea of not being able to turn my art into a viable career years ago, but I'm furious for my peers who are in this for the long run, and constantly have to navigate and protest against new forms of exploitation. I care about human creativity, self expression, and storytelling more than anything else in the world. I always have and always will. If I'm cringe for crying over the existential nightmare of it all (or for thinking this situation is an existential nightmare), that's fine with me.

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