After thanking an eagle-eyed viewer for pointing out the strangeness of a hand in banner art on Netflix itself, Riot Games called the image "a mistake [that] has since been removed" and asserted its "strict stance" against AI.

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.

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