Amazon Mocked for Slapping AI-Generated Poster on Beloved 1922 Film "Nosferatu"

In an astonishing feat of laziness, Amazon Prime Video service has adorned the iconic 1922 horror film “Nosferatu” with a slapdash poster that was obviously generated using AI. The poster — first discovered by eagle-eyed netizens last fall and resurfaced as Robert Eggers’ remake of the beloved classic wows critics in theaters — turns the vampire Count Orlok’s monstrous visage into a yassified rendition with a strangely slender body, his harrowing appearance replaced with an aesthetic straight out of a “Twilight” movie. To add suck further blood out of the original’s legacy, its iconic use of typography was exchanged for a font that closely resembles Papyrus, a typeface so widely hated that it spawned its own series of “Saturday Night Live” sketches. In other words, it’s exactly the kind of uninspired slop you’d expect an AI image generator to spit out. It’s a sign of the times — highlighting a worrying trend as companies like Amazon continue to undermine the work of human artists by leaning into cheapo AI. The online reaction to the insipid art was resoundingly negative. “A horrible one-two punch of anti-art sentiment,” tweeted podcast host Danny Vegito. “Amazon Prime is using generative AI to replace movie posters for iconic films that already exist and already have posters they could use,” artist Jon Neimeister, who worked on the hit video game “Hearthstone,” wrote in a Bluesky post earlier this week. “Not only are we forced to see this shit everywhere, but they’re overwriting art history with it.” Other…Amazon Mocked for Slapping AI-Generated Poster on Beloved 1922 Film "Nosferatu"

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