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David Attenborough's nature documentaries are set for a major change as the BBC camera crew is to be replaced by artificial intelligence technology.

David Attenborough's nature documentaries are set for a major change as the BBC camera crew is to be replaced by artificial intelligence technology. The BBC has faced a series of fakery rows over the past few decades – with the most famous in 2011 when it was revealed scenes in Frozen Planet which apparently showed a polar bear giving birth in the wild were actually shot in a Dutch zoo. Last year BBC cameraman Hamza Yassin claimed wildlife TV documentary scenes are often faked to make viewers feel more 'emotional' about threats to the natural world

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