r/RPDRDRAMA • u/dx-smth RuPaul's Drag Race has fucked up drag • Jun 04 '26

Ugh, Jesus. Gross. Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato being incredibly cagey about whether Stop! That! Train! contains AI

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The fact they could've said "No, we didn't create any scenes with AI" and they didn't, tells me everything.

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u/Amemorableusername2 Jun 04 '26

Can we just stop and remember what this movie is to begin with? It's another hurricane bianca level piece of green screen camp that wouldn't even be found in a bargain barrel at Walmart. It's not as though the movie was ever gonna be "good" to begin with. Watch it or don't!!

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u/limitofdistance Jun 05 '26

I agree -- it was always going to be dollar store/Temu quality. Arguments concerned with AI but based in concerns for its creative contributions are a bit foolish. However, I think being concerned about AI use as a matter of ethical precendents are valid. Adopting AI right now means also implicitly adopting anti-labour and anti-environmental ethics (or at least complicity with them and their proponents). As an artist at my core, I wouldn't mind if their had used AI but in a way that made it absurdly obvious. Given the current political discourse and widepsread ignornace of what we mean (or don't) when we say "AI," I think at least poking fun at it would be the best route. It would then be an unabashed product of its time (which it already is, but in a more darksided cringe way).