AI on Billboards

[WondersOfLife]

Anyone else noticed the eerie AI Disney characters theyve been using on the billboards and ads?

The AK Lion King One strikes out to me the most. Theres also for the new Little Mermaid show thats just a bit unsettling.

 

[Stupido]

Could you post pictures of what you're referring to?

 

[WondersOfLife]

 

[Baloo124]

I personally don't see anything wrong with either image, but get that AI is creating a mixed bag of love/hate currently among the public.

There was a AI Coca Cola commercial run back during Christmastime with polar bears that, again, personally didn't see anything wrong with, but when you read the YouTube comments surrounding it...
Yikes!

 

[Cranky Kong]

Is it even AI? It just looks like CG renders to me. Only Simba looks all that weird to me and I think that's because they're using the FotLK puppet as reference. There was a similar image Disney put out a few years ago people though was AI but it just looked weird because they used the park costumes as reference.

 

[WondersOfLife]

Is it even AI? It just looks like CG renders to me. Only Simba looks all that weird to me and I think that's because they're using the FotLK puppet as reference. There was a similar image Disney put out a few years ago people though was AI but it just looked weird because they used the park costumes as reference.

Fair. I just personally think they both look a little uncanny. But maybe thats just me.

 

[solidyne]

I despise AI slop as much as the next guy, but, unlike that garbage, these pics don't give me the willies. Slightly "off" but not terrible.

 

[EagleScout610]

Not a billboard but when you look closely the problems start to show-

- Tiana's hand vanishing.
- Tiana's kerchief being off center from her collar
- Tiana's eyes
- The fox's hand vanishing

 

[ChrisFL]

I don't think any of those are AI...regarding Tiana's, I think the "disappearing" hands imply they're inside the boat

Remember to "keep all hands and arms inside of the boat at all times".

There could also be some "AI" touch-ups happening too. What a lot of people are upset about are generative AI models that steal others work (by training the models on everything they get access to) without compensation, or just remove all human employees from the equation. That Coca-cola ad, while not only being extremely creepy, also meant they didn't really need any human involvement at all, past some guy typing a few prompts into a computer (Theoretically, I don't know how much actual effort went into it)

On that note, Disney and Universal are teaming up to sue Midjourney for profiting off of their IP by scraping all of their media for their own generative AI models.