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Originally Posted by Mesnick

I'm sure that once the first episode airs, all the controversies surrounding the teasers will be forgotten, as has happened many times before. I immediately recall Geats' gun, which surfaced simultaneously with the murder of the former Prime Minister, or the revelations about abuse of the employee who worked on Revice. Although, perhaps, as a representative of a not very high-tech country, I underestimate the hatred of AI. There is also always the danger that the show itself will create a new reason for hatred and that will not be forgotten so easily.
In any case, I hope that the international showing will bring new people not only to the franchise, but also to this site.

Hi! You're probably right. My general point is to encourage people to focus on the positive. Always voice what you don't like, but in a constructive way. If this bombs, how likely do we think it is that Toei will continue to make efforts to bring Rider projects to the US?

Even the most agreed upon contentious issue -the use of AI generated imagery- is worth thinking about. If I'm honest, I don't like it, either. However, we'd be jumping to conclusions to criticize it based on the teasers. We don't know if it'll even be used in episodes of the show. Even if it was, we'd have to take into account how it fits in to the storytelling. In a dream-themed show, the surreal quality of AI generated images may serve a very specific purpose.

In a broader sense, we have to look at it with a view to the past. Just as the matte painters, stop-motion animators, and model makers were eventually put out of work by the CGI programmers, the CGI programmers will likely be put out of work by "AI." The genie is out of the bottle, whether we like it or not. I'd encourage people not to throw out the baby with the bathwater, as the crusty old saying goes.