Marvel has denied utilizing AI to create posters for The Fantastic Four: First Steps after followers noticed one picture that features what seems to be a person with simply 4 fingers.
Marketing for The Fantastic Four: First Steps kicked off this week with a teaser for its debut trailer, in addition to a collection of posters published to social media.
One of those posters, under, raised eyebrows after followers seen the person holding the biggest Fantastic Four flag on the left seems to be lacking a finger.
On high of that, followers have known as out numerous facets of the poster they imagine counsel the usage of generative AI in its creation, equivalent to duplicated faces, faces not trying within the appropriate route, and odd-sized limbs.
However, a Disney/Marvel spokesperson advised IGN that AI was not used within the creation of those posters, which suggests one thing else is happening.
Let’s begin with the four-fingered man. Some counsel his lacking finger is hiding neatly behind the flag pole, though primarily based on the scale of the fingers, the scale of the pole, and the angle the lacking finger would must be set at, that appears inconceivable. Others have steered that is merely a poorly put collectively poster, which is maybe extra a critique of somebody’s Photoshop expertise than it’s of AI.
Disney/Marvel has but to remark straight on the four-fingered man or clarify what occurred there, which is leaving an area for rampant hypothesis. Could the 4 fingers be a easy mistake within the post-production course of? Perhaps the lacking finger was within the unique picture however was erased with out Photoshopping the remainder of the hand to compensate. And repeating faces won’t essentially be generative AI. Some are suggesting it’s the results of a standard copy / paste background actor digital trick.
Either manner, the talk round The Fantastic Four: First Steps and generative AI this poster has sparked will certainly trigger much more scrutiny on subsequent belongings for the movie. While we wait to seek out out what’s subsequent, we’ve got lots on The Fantastic Four: First Steps, together with options on Galactus and Doctor Doom.
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