Ramayana's 6-Year Handcrafted Art Pushback Ignites AI Slop Debate
vishalmisra · x · 2026-11-01
Ranbir Kapoor pushed back on "AI" claims around the film Ramayana, saying thousands of visual artists spent 6 years obsessing over every cloud, contrast and detail. The poster went further, sharply mocking people who keep virtue-signaling about "AI slop" — a snapshot of the increasingly hostile artisan-vs-AI culture war in creative industries.
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