Will the Stranger Things finale include AI-generated content?

Author: Chris Snelgrove Published 53 seconds ago

if you haven’t watched stranger things Series finale credits, you missed out on something really fun: there are some line drawings of our favorite characters from different moments in the past. However, the fun factor was severely undermined when fans started claiming that artificial intelligence was used to create this art, a claim that was mostly supported by how weird the character’s fingers looked in the picture.

However, in a twist worthy of the show, stranger things Fans prove this isn’t AI art. It’s a human-drawn work of art depicting an actor who happens to be holding a gun in the weirdest way possible!

Nancy, pick up your gun

one of certain images stranger things Fans are convinced the AI ​​is the drawing of Nancy Byers learning how to shoot a pistol in season one. The “evidence” they provide is that certain physical details don’t seem correct. As one Reddit user put it, “The right little finger is messed up…the eyes are pointing in two different directions…and there’s a fang-like extension at the base of the nose.” They ended their succinct swipe with an unsettling conclusion: “100% AI.”

Reading these reviews and looking at the images, you may be inclined to agree with the criticisms. Plus, AI has historically struggled to create realistic hands, and Nancy holds a gun in the weirdest way. for many people stranger things To fans, this was proof enough that despite the season costing nearly $500 million to produce, producers were relying on AI art on the cheap instead of just hiring human artists.

Fans decided to solve the mystery

In response to these criticisms, some stranger things Fans decided to track down the image the artwork was based on. Their goal was simple: compare Nancy’s (and others’) original images to the drawings we saw in the final episode’s credits. If the painting is really just the product of artificial intelligence, it’s theoretically easy to see where the art horribly distorted actress Natalie Dyer’s natural features.

However, that’s not the case… When users started comparing Nancy’s drawings to screenshots of scenes from Season 1, they noticed something interesting: the art faithfully recreated the moment without distorting anything. Keep in mind, this is the scene where Nancy (who later became the gender-swapped Rambo in season five) first learns how to shoot a gun, so the actor intentionally chose to hold the gun in an odd way. The art doesn’t prove that the AI ​​screwed up the actor’s fingers; rather, it proves that a real human artist did an excellent job of recreating what the character looked like in that moment.

These AI rumors are now dead

The same thing could be said about Linda Hamilton’s painting of Dr. Kay, which some believe stranger things Fans think it’s artificial intelligence. Her character is equally strangely holding a pistol (though not quite as strangely as Nancy), and some believe the painting is another example of a generative AI twisting its fingers. Comparison of the drawing with the actual scene once again confirms that this is a faithful recreation of Hamilton’s precise pose and not a serious example of artificial intelligence blunder.

if proved stranger things The series finale uses artificial intelligence, which is bad news for Netflix. The final episode of the show has already proven to be very divisive, with the Duff brothers (bless them) making things worse every time they give an interview. Fortunately for these creators and their streaming platforms of choice, fans have taken a page from Mike and Eleven’s book and have banded together to refute claims that they rely on artificial intelligence rather than paying human artists. For their next trick, maybe those fans can do the impossible: convince me that the series finale didn’t suck the fat!