Netflix is getting thoroughly blasted on social media for using artificial intelligence to make an anime rather than paying actual human artists. Which, fair.
Released by Netflix this week, The Dog & The Boy is a three-minute sci-fi anime short about a kid whose robot dog waits for him when he goes off to war. It isn't a unique story, but what sets this anime apart is that its background art was generated using AI rather than drawn by humans.
According to images shown during The Dog & The Boy's credits...