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Animals landed on Netflix on 9 October with a 36 per cent critics' score and a director who admits the film used AI but refuses to say where. He sold Netflix the tools in March.
Higgsfield launched a 33-day 'unlimited' offer on 7 August with a published average render time under five minutes. Within eleven days paying users were reporting waits of two hours and more. The refund window had already closed. Here is the timeline, the small print and the complaints on file.
AI films have struggled to make anyone care about faces that belong to nobody. A True Warrior casts a creator its audience already recognises as the villain Sultan, and was generated in twenty-four hours.
AI-generated features now premiere at Tribeca and Venice. Guillermo del Toro would rather die than use it. The real threat falls on junior crew, and the real opportunity on filmmakers with no money and something to say.