Disney use of AI for series spooks Hollywood

The use of artificial intelligence in the new Marvel superhero series “Secret Invasion” has sparked anxiety and anger in Hollywood, at a time when television and film writers are already striking over their uncertain futures.

Director Ali Selim revealed in a recent interview that the Disney+ show – a paranoia-rich spy thriller about shape-shifting aliens that stars Samuel L Jackson – used AI as well as human illustrators to generate its opening credits.

The abstract sequence in question blends green-hued urban landscapes, spaceships and shadowy human characters, many of whom gradually reveal themselves to be the reptilian extra-terrestrial “Skrulls” of the series.

Selim told the Polygon website that the use of AI was intended to provide a sense of “foreboding.”