Does Last Stranger Things Include AI Generated Content?

By Chris Snellgrove | Published 53 seconds ago

If you haven’t watched the Stranger Things The end credits sequence, you missed something fun: there were a few line drawings of our favorite characters from various past times. However, the excitement was severely dampened when fans began to suspect that AI was used to create this art, a claim that is largely supported by the way the characters’ fingers look in the drawings.

However, with the fair trade-off, Stranger Things fans proved that this was not the art of AI. It was human-drawn art that showed scenes where the characters were holding guns in a weird way!

Nancy, get your gun

One of the pictures for sure Stranger Things fans were convinced that the AI ​​was a sketch of Nancy Byers learning to shoot a gun from Season 1. The “evidence” they brought to the table was that some physical details seemed to be missing. As one Redditor put it, “the pinky on the right is tied … the eyes are facing in two different directions … at the bottom of the nose is a fang-shaped extension.” They ended their demotion in a nutshell with a haunting verdict: “100% AI.”

By reading these comments and looking at the picture, you will probably be inclined to agree with the criticism. Also, AI has historically struggled to create realistic-looking hands, and Nancy holds the gun in a very odd way. For many Stranger Things fans, this was proof enough that, even though the season took almost half a billion to produce, the show was cheap and relied on the art of AI rather than hiring a human artist.

Fans Decide To Solve The Mystery

In response to this criticism, others Stranger Things fans decided to trace the images that the art is based on. Their goal was simple: to compare the first picture of Nancy (and others) with the painting we see during the credits of the final episode. If the painting was AI slop, it would be easy to see where the art horribly distorts the natural features of actress Natalie Dyer.

Well, that didn’t happen…once users started comparing Nancy’s drawing with the screenshot of that scene from Season 1, they noticed something funny: the art faithfully recreated the moment and didn’t distort anything. Remember, this was the scene where Nancy (who later became the gender-swapped Rambo in Season 5) first learned to shoot a gun, so the character made a deliberate decision to hold the gun in a weird way. Art did not prove that the AI ​​damaged the actor’s fingers; rather, it proves that an actual human artist did a bang-up job recreating the way the character looked at this time.

These AI Rumors Are Now Busted

The same can be said about Dr. Kay of Linda Hamilton that others Stranger Things fans thought it was AI. Her character similarly held a gun in her hand (though not as awkwardly as Nancy), and some thought the drawing was another example of the AI’s fingers being distorted. Once again, a comparison of the drawing to the real world confirmed that this was a faithful recreation of Hamilton’s vertical stance rather than an extreme example of AI slop.

If it was proved that Stranger Things The last series that used AI, it would have been bad news for Netflix. The last episode of the show has already proven to be very divisive, and the Duffer Brothers (bless them) continue to make things worse every time they do an interview. Fortunately for these creators and their chosen streaming platform, fans have taken a page out of Mike and Eleven’s book and rallied to counter allegations that they rely on AI rather than paying a human artist. With their next trick, maybe those fans can do the impossible: make sure the end of the series doesn’t make me fat!