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Jorge R. Gutierrez withdraws from Amazon's AI-generated Punky Duck after backlash from peers, apologizes, and pledges to do better. Guillermo del Toro publicly champions human-made animation, while other creators criticize or boycott AI-based projects like Cupcake & Friends and Love, Diana Music Hunters, underscoring a broader debate over AI’s role in animation and creators’ rights.
Jorge R. Gutierrez has scrapped his AI-generated Punky Duck animated series for Amazon MGM Studios after backlash over AI usage, withdrawing from the GenAI Creators’ Fund pilot and apologizing for upsetting people. The project—one of three AI-driven pilots announced at the AI on the Lot conference—was dropped amid criticism tied to Gutierrez’s past objections to AI and threats he received, with Amazon not immediately commenting.
Filmmaker Jorge Gutierrez says he is withdrawing from Amazon MGM Studios’ GenAI Creators’ Fund and will not move forward with the AI-generated animated series Punky Duck, after backlash over his involvement; he apologized to those upset and pledged to do better, noting the project aimed to showcase artists using AI in animation within Amazon’s AI-funding initiative.