"As generative AI slop is threatening to turn Hollywood on its head, not everybody in the industry is enthusiastic about the tech. In a hilarious counter to a fan's AI-generated image of actor Brandon Sklenar dressed as the DC Comics' Batman, DC Studios filmmaker and "Superman" director James Gunn quipped in a Threads post that "it would be weird to cast an AI Batman with a 14 inch arm." Gunn was alluding to the AI-generated Batman's unnaturally short appendages, pointing out the AI's failure to account for perspective."
"The news comes just days after entertainment conglomerate Warner Bros Discovery, which distributes the blockbuster "The Dark Knight" trilogy and 2022's "The Batman," sued AI image generator company Midjourney over facilitating mass copyright infringement. Basically, Warner Bros says the startup is letting its users create AI-generated images and videos of its copyrighted characters - much like the image Gunn was responding to. As SuperHeroHype points out, fans have increasingly been floating Sklenar's name for portraying DC Studios' next iteration of Batman. However, the studio has yet to make any announcement about who will put on the mask as the successor to actor Robert Pattinson, who will be starring in the sequel to "The Batman" next year."
"The use of generative AI in cinema has turned into a highly contentious topic as people employed in the entertainment industry continue to worry about the tech making them redundant. Big-name actors, directors, and filmmakers, including Sean Penn, Guillermo del Toro, and Steven Spielberg have publicly opposed the use of AI in Hollywood. "I don't want AI making any creative decisions that I can't make myself," Spielberg told Reuters in June. "And I don't want to use AI as a non-human collaborator, in trying to work out my creati"
Generative AI image tools are producing distorted celebrity images that provoke ridicule and industry concern over technical failures and perspective errors. A high-profile filmmaker mocked an AI-generated Batman image for disproportionate limbs, illustrating visual inaccuracies. Warner Bros Discovery filed a lawsuit against an AI image generator for allegedly enabling mass copyright infringement by allowing creation of images and videos of its characters. Fans have suggested Brandon Sklenar as a possible new Batman candidate, but no casting decision exists. Prominent filmmakers publicly oppose AI use in filmmaking, citing fears of lost creative control and job displacement.
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