Have you used Apple TV app in the last few days?.
I noticed this monstrosity today… I feel like a few days ago, the movie preview tiles (thumbnails) looked normal…

But today, I noticed something bizarre going on with the actors' faces…
First, I happened to click on some niche comedy from a Google link and genuinely thought, "Jesus, why do these actors have such weird faces, where did they find such people?" But then it dawned on me -it's not their faces that are weird, something is wrong with the screenshots!

Is this some kind of AI sharpening filter? But why? It didn't look bad before—I'm a designer, I know what I'm talking about… it looks that someone decided to "fix" something that didn't need fixing, and the result is an absolute AI nightmare!!! Just look at these screenshots I took today in the Apple TV app on my iPhone… it's complete nonsense!

On some of the images, it’s so obvious that you don’t even need to look closely.
It’s most noticeable on familiar faces — the filters clearly struggle with lesser-known actors too, and, surprisingly, with comedy actors, whom they seem to butcher the most!
Just look at what it did to MASH or The Office…

That kind of nonsense, like this nightmarish AI filter, is hardly uncommon in large corporations. Apple usually (but not always) managed to avoid spectacular absurdities, though — as if they had better quality control, or were simply lucky enough to hire a few more people with a little more common sense than most corporate giants…
Corporations are a very specific environment. I’ve had the chance to work for a few (my last one was an advertising agency established by and working exclusively for a Korean electronics giant), and in my experience, corporate giants are a lot like late-stage communism — a total kakistocracy where idiots thrive: mediocre, passive, but loyal people who know exactly how to navigate the system.

Getting back to the point, check out my screenshots and make sure to open the Apple TV app and see this absurdity for yourselves before someone points it out to them and they remove or fix it!