Blue Planet III features cloudier footage to prove authenticity amid AI boom
“No gen AI was used in this series. Not a single frame. It's all real photography.”
What happened
The BBC's Blue Planet III is deliberately keeping murkier, less polished underwater shots, plankton and stray boats included, so viewers can tell the animals are not AI-generated. Footage that would once have been cut for poor water conditions now stays in as proof it is real.