The Shrek redesign thing reminds me of scientists that can’t show up to date dinosaurs renderings based on further research cause the public won’t accept it. So they have to keep using dinosaur images from the 90’s so the public will come To there museums.
The backrooms being something that takes from existing things, doesn't understand any of it, then feeds itself with the same thing over and over until it all starts to become unstable with that yellow tint? You couldn't make a better analogy for ai if you wanted to 😭