Netflix has been criticized by Arcane fans and accused of using AI to alter a poster for season 2 to fit the platform’s banner.

Netflix has reportedly removed an Arcane Season 2 poster ahead of the franchise's release of the last batch of episodes.

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.

Riot Games has pulled a promotional poster after fans pointed out it seemed to have been made using AI. After thanking an eagle-eyed viewer for pointing out the strangeness of a hand in banner art on Netflix itself,

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

Netflix have removed what appears to be an AI-generated poster for Arcane season 2 after it was called out by a viewer – and one Riot Games employee has responded in no uncertain terms that it's "disrespectful" to those who have worked on the show.