{"id":422443,"date":"2026-05-02T22:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/422443\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T22:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:33:08","slug":"the-devil-wears-prada-2-hired-a-real-human-artist-to-make-its-ai-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/422443\/","title":{"rendered":"The Devil Wears Prada 2 hired a real human artist to make its AI slop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, in \u201cCruel artists taking jobs from poor, impoverished plagiarism machines\u201d news: Disney\u2019s The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/a>\u00a0is getting some attention this weekend for bucking a trend that\u2019s apparently a lot less inevitable than our various tech overlords keep trying to pretend. Specifically, people are pointing out that an \u201cAI meme\u201d that shows up in the film\u2014showing Meryl Streep\u2019s Miranda Priestly working a fast food job\u2014not only wasn\u2019t\u00a0generated via AI, but was painted by an artist hired by production specifically to replicate the appearance of AI slop. How\u2019s that for a conceptual ouroboros?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Per Deadline<\/a>, the artist herself, Alexis Franklin, posted about<\/a> being hired by director David Frankel to create the meme, writing that, \u201cI think these companies should get their flowers when they hire an artist.\u201d (Franklin has, of course, since had to fend off accusations from random internet rabble that she herself is some kind of AI construct, because the internet is a sort of never-ending matryoshka doll of shitty takes.) Posting on Twitter<\/a>, Franklin described her process for capturing the slopitude of it all, writing, \u201cObviously it looks AI-esque because I was hired to create a meme, not necessarily a painting, and since the image would not be on screen long, I kind of deployed a \u2018logo\u2019 state of mind\u2014it needed to be immediately readable as clearly doctored and fake, because that\u2019s the joke, so I didn\u2019t go heavy on the brush strokes or \u2018artistry\u2019 of it. But the response to this has been so interesting. \u2018You nailed the AI slop of it!\u2019 is such a harrowing compliment.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are a lot of jokes circulating online this weekend about how low the bar has gotten in terms of praising studios for resisting AI pressure, but, seriously: It would have been pretty damn easy for Disney to boil a small lake to just crap out something thoughtless for these purposes\u2014flying blithely in the face of the actual movie\u2019s staunch anti-AI stance\u2014so seeing Frankel and the studio invest in human work to make some artisanal, bespoke AI meme slop is genuinely kind of fascinating.\u00a0<\/p>\n