Netflix have removed what appears to be an AI-generated poster for Arcane season 2 after it was called out by a viewer – and one Riot Games employee has responded in no uncertain terms that it's "disrespectful" to those who have worked on the show.

This weekend, Arcane Season 2 is wrapping up the show with a grand finale. But the League of Legends-inspired series apparently caused some friction between Riot Games and Netflix over an Arcane Season 2 promo poster that was created by AI.

Netflix has reportedly removed an Arcane Season 2 poster ahead of the franchise's release of the last batch of episodes. Riot Games and studio Fortiche's joint venture Arcane has allegedly used an AI-generated poster,

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Another day, another spot of generative AI drama, this one involving a promo image for the League of Legends-based anime Arcane. The image, which showed up as a thumbnail in the streaming app, was taken down by Netflix after fans called out some hinkiness that pretty clearly pointed the finger at work done by a machine.

Riot Games has pulled a promotional poster after fans pointed out it seemed to have been made using AI. After thanking an eagle-eyed viewer for pointing out the strangeness of a hand in banner art on Netflix itself,

Some people are wondering how one uses AI by mistake, but I presume what happened is that someone at Netflix did it knowingly and that Riot Games was put out and asked them to rem