Source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nThe opening credits for ‘Secret Invasion’ were controversial in a number of ways including it’s use of AI-generated images, which has been seen as exploitative and lazy. Admittedly, Selim claimed ignorance of the process of AI-generated artwork and pointed at Method Studios as having done all the work using generative adversarial networks. The truth of the matter is that AI programs are often fed artwork of other artists in an attempt to duplicate their art styles, without the consent of the original artists because of which, the legality of AI-generated artwork is questioned. There’s also an ongoing debate on if it is morally appropriate to use this technique, as it is widely believed to be unfair to traditional and digital artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jeff Simpson, a senior concept artist that worked on the ‘Secret Invasion’ TV show, expressed disappointment over the use of AI-generated art on Twitter. “I’m devastated,” Simpson said. “I believe AI to be unethical, dangerous and designed solely to eliminate artists’ careers.” Even DC Studios boss James Gunn has publicly rejected the use of AI-generated content for animated projects based on the DC Universe, calling the technique unoriginal and exploitive. Aside from this, WGA strikers have also spoken up about the dangers of AI taking over the jobs of talented artists in a race for cheap and unoriginal art to use in the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
‘Secret Invasion’ is a Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) television miniseries created by Kyle Bradstreet for the streaming service Disney+, based on the Marvel Comics storyline of the same name. It stars Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and basically follows him and his allies, who attempt to thwart a Skrull invasion on Earth. The opening […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":16249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1098,35,11],"tags":[1951,2299,2298,2297,774,132,1378,1294,1331,1607,1444,51,1061,2300,2296,1608,1536],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16243"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16382,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243\/revisions\/16382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}