'The feedback we received highlighted the strong concern held by many of our audience on the use of AI in place of a writer which speaks to a wider issue within the industry,' a cinema spokesperson said.
Films being pilloried sight-unseen is hardly a new phenomenon: the BBFC famously received hundreds of complaints prior to the release of Martin Scorsese's 'The Last Temptation of Christ', but not a single one afterwards.
Marvel endured a backlash for its deployment of AI in the title sequence of Nick Fury-led Disney+ series 'Secret Invasion', as did this year's 'Late Night with the Devil', a horror film that included AI-generated art.
The use of AI in screenwriting was a key plank of last year's Hollywood writers' strike, although the negotiated settlement - that AI can be used to generate scripts, but writers will always be credited for their work - was a less than optimal solution.
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