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What changedThe BBC’s specialist factual commissioning head, Jack Bootle, told journalists that no generative AI was used in Blue Planet III: “Not a single frame. It’s all real photography,” The Guardian reports.
Executive producer Elizabeth White said the rise of AI made the team want to be “even more authentic”. Producer Yoland Bosiger described how shots with plankton or other untidy conditions might once have been left out, or a boat or buoy framed away.
The Guardian also reports that the series includes previously unseen behaviour, including dolphins using sea sponges to block holes in coral while trapping fish. The production filmed across five oceans over four years, using techniques including a mini-dome camera to follow an octopus and a deep-sea selfie stick.
Sources and evidence- Blue Planet III features cloudier footage to prove authenticity amid AI boom – The Guardian: The Guardian reports that Jack Bootle said no generative AI was used in Blue Planet III, and that producers are retaining less polished footage as a deliberate signal of authenticity amid AI-generated imagery.
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