The web’s collective head is on a swivel lately for even the slightest whiff of AI intervention in artwork, and for good cause: Apparently not even big-budget productions from Marvel are proof against dodgy-looking artwork seeing official use, as evidenced by a brand new poster for the Thunderbolts that includes a personality with six fingers on one hand.
Yep, look there on the underside left: that is a dude with six fingers, and as Gamespot factors out, that character (Bob) has 5 fingers in a teaser for the movie.
Assuming Marvel is not teasing a 3rd act twist the place this one explicit Thunderbolt sprouts a brand new digit, the six-finger poster shared by the official Marvel Twitter and Instagram accounts at this time seems altered from its supposed look. Curiously, that model is the one model with the error. A extra slim model of the poster that cuts off earlier than the sixth finger appeared in Marvel’s official weblog put up alongside the brand new teaser.
As bizarre because the rogue finger is, probably the most affordable rationalization is that somebody on the advertising and marketing or social facet wanted to resize the usual poster to play properly with Twitter or Instagram’s most popular picture codecs, so that they opted to increase the sides out and “autofill” the empty area. Whether or not or not meaning Marvel employed generative AI to do the job is unclear—an precise graphic artist would know higher, however this might’ve been a easy goof up with Photoshop’s Content material-Conscious Fill characteristic, which is a machine-learning AI software, however not precisely the identical as generative AI like Midjourney.
The posters with bonus fingers stay on-line on the time of writing with no remark from Marvel as of but. You possibly can watch the teaser trailer for Thunderbolts* beneath (wow, that asterisk is definitely a part of the title).
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