President Donald Trump’s administration’s fondness for AI art, seen controversially in its depiction of Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention center and anime-fied targets of ICE, is well-known if not widely appreciated.

This visually arresting technology lurched onto the scene only about three years ago, but it has been glommed on to by upstarts on the Right at the same time it’s been vilified by the art establishment and established artists. Big Hollywood, or rather just Hollywood, has sounded the alarm on AI’s threat to the livelihoods of its constituent elements — even if it’s being forced to grudgingly, gradually go along, as evidenced by recent Netflix adoption of AI in an Argentinian science-fiction series.