"AI "art" advocates often feel like a guy who's trying to move into your apartment without actually telling you; with multi-billion-dollar support from on high, the techno-enthusiasts' playbook focuses on a steady wave of boundary-pushing actions designed to wear down resistance, until one day you look around, see all their shit sitting in your living room, and resign yourself to thinking, "Well, I guess Dave lives here now.""
"Dave does not, however, live at AMC Theaters, which issued a statement today rejecting a move from Screenvision Media-one of those companies whose whole thing is making the ad rolls that fill the 20 minutes before trailers run at the movie theater so people won't be trapped with their own thoughts or conversations-to run an AI-generated short film in front of its audiences."
AI 'art' advocates often behave like people imposing themselves into shared spaces, using large corporate funding and persistent boundary-pushing tactics to normalize presence and erode resistance. AMC Theatres rejected a proposal from Screenvision Media to play an AI-generated short film before screenings, refusing to grant access to its audiences as a contest prize. The short, Igor Alferov's "Thanksgiving Day," won the Frame Forward AI Animated Film Festival organized by Modern Uprising Studios and Screenvision. The short used tools such as Gemini 3.1 and Nano Banana Pro. A festival screenshot showing dead-eyed animal astronauts elicited strong negative reactions.
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