The bad movie reviews quoted in Lionsgate’s Megalopolis trailer were mostly made up

/ Did Lionsgate use AI to generate negative reviews from critics like Roger Ebert?

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

A screenshot from the Megalopolis trailer. Image: Lionsgate

Hours after it was released, Lionsgate pulled a trailer for Megalopolis that was clearly “gunning for the haters” with a selection of negative quotes about director Francis Ford Coppola’s previous works. That’s because reports like this one from Vulture’s Bilge Ebiri showed that critic quotes in the trailer lambasting films like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now were fabricated.

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