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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tara Conlan

Blue Planet III features cloudier footage to prove authenticity amid AI boom

Diver films a turtle in the ocean on the outside of a large fish farming net.
Creatures filmed in the deep ocean are ‘more remarkable than AI could imagine and it’s completely real’, said the Blue Planet III producers. Photograph: BBC Studios/Jose Branco

The David Attenborough-narrated series Blue Planet III deliberately includes cloudier, less polished footage to counter AI fakery and assure viewers it is “authentic”, its producers have said.

Nearly a decade after Blue Planet II shone a light on plastic pollution, and 25 years since the first Blue Planet aired, the hit BBC series is returning with more animal behaviour and cutting-edge technology, including the world’s first underwater CCTV camera – dubbed “stonefish” cam.

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