The AI credit sequence for Marvel's "Secret Invasion" was as bad as one would expect. Originally a comic book story centered on Skrull (a sinister alien shapeshifter) and his infiltration of superhero society, it would have made for an interesting retelling in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Unfortunately, the studio's decision to work with "AI Bender" has many fans outraged. [Blizzard senior character artist dekubrush said on Twitter that it was "utterly embarrassing" and "a mistake of the highest order."

Senior concept artist Jeff Simpson, who worked on the show itself, also commented: "The Secret Invasion intro was created by AI, AI is unethical, dangerous, and designed only to eliminate artists' careers. I think."

Meanwhile, executive producer and director Ali Salim defended the decision as a thematic issue in an interview with Polygon." Shapeshift, it was born out of the identity of the Sklar world," he said." Salim later admitted that he did not understand the technique well. "We talk to them [about the idea], and the computer boots up and does something. And we can change that a little bit by using language."

It is staggering, especially in the context of the ongoing Hollywood strike where AI forms part of the conversation, that the director's understanding of the controversial technology they are using apparently boils down to "the computer does something." This is reminiscent of the controversy that was stirred up when Prime Matter, the publisher of the "System Shock" remake, used "Midjourney" to recreate "Shodan" and lost the trust of many Kickstarter supporters in the process.

What was the result of taking on all this controversy: ....... A strange dead-eyed Samuel L. Jackson stares ahead, but blurry acid divides his gaze down the middle. The alien architecture (which could be visually interesting with some fine-tuning) is completely ruined by the lack of consideration of where it is actually placed. The blurry skyline of what is probably London is pushed by the two Big Bens. It's confusing. It's a visual soup with little reason or rhyme beyond "this looks alien and strange and green."

Still, it doesn't matter if it looks good or not. Salim's desire for a transformative visual identity is, objectively speaking, something that could be achieved by a human artist. The concepts presented by the machine occasionally offer glimpses of possibilities that could be extended by a human hand, but as it stands, they seem cheap and mean-spirited. This is disconcerting for Disney's Marvel Studios, especially given its low favorability with the VFX community as a whole.

In the game industry, the "Shodan" stunt is just the tip of the iceberg, with senior creators citing AI as a reason for leaving the company, and poor AI scripting in "Firmament," the spiritual successor to "Myst," confusing players, and "Midjourney's" own problems rearing their The spiritual successor to "Myst," "Firmament," has its own problems. But there are also some interesting ventures, such as the upcoming "Hidden Door. But if AI dross like "Secret Invasion" is what we can expect from the upcoming cutscene, I'll be reaching for my skip key.