Neill Blomkamp’s New Horror Clip Is Entirely AI-Generated, Sucks
THE SO WHAT
A director with real genre credibility putting out an all‑AI short and getting panned is a useful calibration point—audiences are already grading AI-native content on the same curve as human work. Studios and brands experimenting with AI-first video should assume novelty value is gone and budget for real iteration, not one‑shot prompts.
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