🚨 AI Image Found In Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Plus, Tesla’s solar roof is dead

August 21, 2026

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Breaking News: Marvel fans caught the official $50 Spider-Man: Brand New Day art book using messy AI-generated images. The blunder comes just months after Disney laid off over 1,000 workers, hitting Marvel's visual effects and concept art teams the hardest.

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📢 Today's Headline:

  • $2B Spider-Man film drops cheap AI

  • Tesla officially kills off the Solar Roof

  • Walmart FINALLY accepts Apple Pay

  • Apple Music adds AI tags

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  • Today’s Poll and Results

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The $50 official art book for Spider-Man: Brand New Day features an obvious AI-generated concept image, exposing a messy quality breakdown inside Marvel's post-layoff creative pipeline.

  • Readers zoomed in on piece "Big City, Little Spider" to find warped buildings, melting taxis, and distorted fire escapes typical of raw generative prompts.

  • The error hits right after Disney cut over 1,000 employees at Marvel Studios, hitting the concept art and visual effects departments hardest.

  • The film just crossed $2 billion at the global box office, making the decision to print low-effort AI placeholders in a premium physical collectible a tough pill for fans to swallow.

The leak highlights growing tension as major studios quietly test generative image tools during pre-production, only for sloppy unedited outputs to slip past editing desks and into final products.

Audience backlash proves fans can easily spot raw AI outputs, meaning teams using generative workflows need strict human review steps before anything hits print or screen.

Tesla has quietly scrubbed the Solar Roof from its website, exposing the steep limits of over-engineering consumer energy hardware.

  • Musk targeted 1,000 installations per week, but actual numbers stalled around 20 to 30 roofs total.

  • Installers faced extreme installation complexity and custom fitting delays, pushing unit costs far out of reach for average homeowners.

  • Third-party contractors are being redirected entirely toward standard panels and Powerwall batteries.

First unveiled in 2016, the product promised seamless glass solar shingles but suffered constant production bottlenecks and price hikes for nearly a decade.

Specialized custom hardware rarely beats standardized modular design when scaling physical deployment, so expect clean energy players to stick to simple, off-the-shelf panel tech.

Walmart is officially turning on Apple Pay and Google Pay, signaling a complete capitulation on controlling customer payment data.

  • The rollout starts in select stores next week and hits every U.S. Walmart and Sam's Club location by late 2026.

  • Walmart held out for 12 years trying to force customers onto Walmart Pay QR codes to save on interchange fees.

  • The shift comes as consumer tap-to-pay adoption crossed 85 percent nationwide, making friction at the register a real risk.

For over a decade, Walmart pushed its own in-app payments to track purchasing behavior and bypass card network fees.

Ecosystem lock-in almost always loses to consumer habit in physical retail, so expect remaining proprietary app-only checkout flows to collapse next.

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Marvel's $50 Spider-Man art book has an AI-generated image in it. Would you feel scammed?

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Previous Poll:

Would you let ChatGPT read your iMessages to help draft your replies?

  • A) Sign me up – Typing is so last year! – 43%

  • B) Hard pass – Keep AI out of my texts. - 57% 🏆

People will let AI write their code, their emails, their whole personality on X — but hand over the group chat where Karen is spiraling about her divorce again? Absolutely not, sir. Turns out "convenience" has a hard limit, and it's located directly inside your DMs.

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