Arcane AI Slop Trailer Slammed As ‘Soulless’ And ‘Disrespectful’

As the AI slop pushers get more and more bold, we’re seeing not just clear rip-offs of games, movies, and TV shows, but also blatant copyright infringement without even attempts to mask it. Arcane, Netflix and Riot’s acclaimed League of Legends animated series, is the latest victim of this, and one of the animators on the show recently denounced a “soulless and deeply disrespectful” AI mock-up of it.

The slop comes from Seedance 2.0, a generative AI video model from Bytedance, better known as the owner of TikTok in China. The generated video shows a fight between Arcane and League of Legends characters Vi, Jinx, Ekko, and Warwick. At a glance, it definitely looks like the show, but when you watch it, something seems off. 

There’s an odd lack of narrative cohesion, with the video making no attempt to logically string shots together. Jinx walks away near the end to nowhere in particular, Vi straight up disappears after a brief appearance in the opening seconds, and there are several points in the brawl where the action doesn’t feel like it flows into a coherent battle.

The result feels soulless and deeply disrespectful to our artists who worked incredibly hard on Arcane

If you truly want to pay homage to the show, don’t be afraid to pick up a pencil or open a 3D software and create something from scratch, even if it isn’t professional https://t.co/uUIGH4pLEs

— Kammelin (@Lordupe) February 9, 2026

AI shills are gassing it up as another impressive feat of expensive plagiarism for replicating Riot’s art style, but as an actual piece of animated storytelling, it’s sloppy. Kammelin, who worked on Arcane’s second season and is currently a production manager at Illogic Studios, said that if people want to pay tribute to the show, they should “pick up a pencil or open a 3D software,” rather than relying on generative tools that are scraping from handmade work. 

While we wait for the AI bubble to burst, generated art is creeping into just about every facet of pop culture. Hell, if you watched the Super Bowl last night, you probably saw several AI-generated ads during the commercial breaks. Big tech’s push to shove AI into every corner of everything you love is affecting more than just art and animation, it’s infected tech, voice acting, music, game development, and much, much more. 

Companies like Microsoft that keep clogging up the internet with this garbage acknowledge that sentiment towards AI slop is degrading, and yet, here we are, watching more and more corporations insist we hork it down. So hopefully, more creators keep calling this shit out when they see it.