The 37-year-old, however, went to her Instagram Stories to denounce the picture as the “most offensive thing I’ve ever seen” after a fan chose to alter it using artificial intelligence techniques.
Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo recreate the iconic ‘WICKED’ Broadway poster. pic.twitter.com/dl1eqFgEqK
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In a statement that included a repost of the picture, she said, “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,” she said. It’s not cute at all. It makes me feel inferior. It diminishes us. An illustration is what the original poster was.
Since we can communicate with our eyes without using words, I, a real person, decided to stare directly into the camera at you, the viewer.
“To alter my face and conceal my eyes is to obliterate me; our poster is a tribute, not a copy. And that’s just so painful,” the celebrity said.
