"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-driven creators and companies pursue mainstream exposure through contests and ad-network placements to normalize generated works. Screenvision Media awarded the festival-winning short "Thanksgiving Day" a prize that included access to cinema audiences. The short won at the Frame Forward AI Animated Film Festival, organized by Modern Uprising Studios and Screenvision. The film was generated using tools such as Gemini 3.1 and Nano Banana Pro. A festival screenshot showing dead-eyed animal astronauts prompted derision and social-media anger. AMC Theaters announced that locations using Screenvision services would not participate in the screening program.
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