AI is the new kitsch

Aftermath's Chris Person discusses how 4K remastering is marching real-life movies into the uncanny valley:

At times it can look passable in motion, but then you notice something out of the corner of your eye: a thick fold of skin, a framed photo of a child, folders that are too thick at the margins, cheeks that look rendered. It's that familiar dread at the pit of your gut when you spot AI generated imagery, a combination of edges not looking quite right and surfaces that are simultaneously too smooth and too sharp. 

The why is games, I guess. Kids raised on console RPGs expect fully CGI environments and mannequin expressions. AI and digital graphics are bringing what I think of as the Pierre et Gilles aesthetic to cinema. Iconic, kitsch, disturbing.