{"id":143814,"date":"2025-05-30T15:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/30\/nbc-pulls-viral-chinese-paraglider-video-over-ai-concerns\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T15:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:12:24","slug":"nbc-pulls-viral-chinese-paraglider-video-over-ai-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/30\/nbc-pulls-viral-chinese-paraglider-video-over-ai-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Pulls Viral Chinese Paraglider Video Over AI Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA dramatic video described as exhibiting a Chinese paraglider surviving an unplanned 8,500m (27,000 ft) ascent and subzero temperatures has been pulled from the web site of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nbc-news\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nbc-news\" data-tag=\"nbc-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC News<\/a> over considerations that it could be <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ai\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ai\" data-tag=\"ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI<\/a> generated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn a be aware on its information web site, the community mentioned: \u201cNBC News has determined that some of the footage provided by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV and distributed by Reuters that appeared in our initial coverage was AI-generated. We have removed this video and are continuing to report on the veracity of the story. This note will be updated in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe community was amongst hundreds of stories organisations worldwide to have posted the video in latest days, starting from the UK\u2019s BBC and to France\u2019s TF1 to the web sites of newspapers comparable to The Guardian and The New York Times. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAccording to the story which broke earlier this week the video is described as exhibiting 55-year paraglider Peng Yujiang\u2019s terrifying ascent after his gear turned caught in an updraft often called a \u201ccloud suck\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe video, which options Peng battling with robust winds after which wanting dazed and frostbitten above the clouds, was first posted on Chinese video-sharing App Douyin, the nation\u2019s model of TikTok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe footage was then licensed by Chinese State TV community CCTV and plenty of different viral video distributors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tConcerns over the footage come amid rising challenges for information organizations round AI-generated video and authenticating actual footage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWith a query mark hanging over the authenticity of the video, the veracity of the story can be being re-investigated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn a separate story, NBC mentioned it had reached out to a number of social media accounts related to Peng however had not acquired a response. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeadline has contacted NBC and plenty of different information retailers which posted the fabric for remark, in addition to CCTV, however has not acquired a response from any of the organizations. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A dramatic video described as exhibiting a Chinese paraglider surviving an unplanned 8,500m (27,000 ft) ascent and subzero temperatures has been pulled from the web site of NBC News over considerations that it could be AI generated. In a be aware on its information web site, the community mentioned: \u201cNBC News has determined that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[7792,2111,4219,11309,2107,140,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-143814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood","8":"tag-chinese","9":"tag-concerns","10":"tag-nbc","11":"tag-paraglider","12":"tag-pulls","13":"tag-video","14":"tag-viral"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}