AMC Theatres refuses to screen AI film that sparked online backlash

An AI film festival promised the winner a two-week run in theaters, but some theater chains are refusing to put it on the big screen. The winner, Igor Alferov’s “Thanksgiving Day,” is an intergalactic tale about a bear and platypus that was created using AI tools like Gemini 3.1 and Nano Banana Pro. When word [...]