Interviews aside, almost nothing I see online is fully trustable…nothing. My default presumption is that almost everything I see (and I mean 85% or 90% of it) has been AI-tweaked or AI-composited to some extent. Or completely. Almost everything out there, in short, is an AI cartoon. Raw reality is very close to being a thing of the past. In this context, I almost feel a measure of affection for the Zapruder film. I certainly miss funny calamity videos like this one:
10:30 am update: Farewell to TBS, TCM and CNN pioneer Ted Turner. Dead at 87. Say what you will about Turner, there was nothing artificial about him.