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NBC Leads Move To Pull Viral Chinese Paraglider Video Over Concerns It Was AI Generated


NBC Pulls Viral Chinese Paraglider Video Over Concerns It Was AI Generated

The network was among thousands of news organisations worldwide to have posted the video in recent days, ranging from the UK’s BBC and to France’s TF1 to the websites of newspapers such as The Guardian and The New York Times. According to the story which broke earlier this week the video is described as showing 55-year paraglider Peng Yujiang’s terrifying ascent after his equipment became caught in an updraft known as a “cloud suck”. The video, which features Peng battling with strong winds and then looking dazed and frostbitten above the clouds, was first posted on Chinese video-sharing App Douyin, the country’s version of TikTok.

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