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The Reviews are in on Darren Aronofsky’s AI-Generated Show, and May We Just Say: “Yikes”

Frank Landymore

created: Feb. 7, 2026, 3:30 p.m. | updated: Feb. 12, 2026, 2:39 a.m.

“This is, after all, because the back of an AI-generated head is far less likely to send people into screaming fits of trauma than an AI-generated face,” Heritage wrote. It is by far the most disturbing thing Aronofsky has made, and I’ve seen the last eight minutes of ‘Requiem for a Dream. The show is a collaboration between Aronofsky’s AI studio Primordial Soup, Google’s DeepMind lab, Salesforce, and TIME Studios. This isn’t being sold to us as the work of Aronofsky sitting in his bedroom somewhere and typing in AI prompts. More on AI: AI Is Causing Cultural Stagnation, Researchers Find

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