AI is ruining haunted houses

The author, who has run a home haunted attraction since 2005, describes encountering low-quality AI art, including an image with the Gemini diamond logo, at his first haunt of the year. He argues AI has spread into haunt flyers, props, projections and merchandise—citing Kennywood, The Darkness, AtmosFX, Knott's Berry Farm and Queen Mary Dark Harbor—and that this undercuts the originality and physical craft that make haunts distinctive, even as non-generative AI is used behind the scenes for prop timing and safety planning.