Ariana Grande backs up Cynthia Erivo over “troublesome” fan-edited ‘Wicked’ posters

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Ariana Grande has offered support to her Wicked co-star Cynthia Erivo over the actress’ criticism of fan-edited posters and AI content.Last week, Erivo spoke out about a fan edit of the poster for the upcoming Wicked movie that echoed the original Broadway advert for the musical, while also hitting out at AI-generated videos of her and Grande’s characters fighting each other.At the time, Erivo wrote on her Instagram Stories about the Wicked posters, “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen, equal to that awful AI of us fighting, equal to people posing the question ‘is your ***** green’.

None of this is funny. None of it is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us.”Speaking to Variety on Saturday (October 19), Grande described the situation as “complicated,” adding, “I find AI so conflicting and troublesome sometimes, but I think it’s just kind of such a massive adjustment period.

This is something that is so much bigger than us, and the fans are gonna have fun and make their edits.”Cynthia Erivo reacts to edits of the ‘Wicked’ poster and the viral AI fighting animation:“Our poster is an homage not an imitation, to edit my face and hide my eyes is to erase me.

And that is just deeply hurtful.” pic.twitter.com/R7jGz0Nxnx— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) October 16, 2024When asked whether things can sometimes go “too far,” Grande replied, “I think so.