BBC’s “Blue Planet III” will have “less polished” camera shots to prove they didn’t use AI

AI has ruined a lot over the past five years, and it sounds like it's going to get worse.

In order to prove that there was no AI involved in its filming, the BBC series Blue Planet has decided to not frame their shots in an artistic fashion.

The Guardian reports,

The executive producer, Elizabeth White, said AI, 'makes us want to be even more authentic', adding that the creatures filmed in the deep ocean 'are probably more remarkable than AI could imagine and it's completely real'.
She said that in the past 'the amount of plankton and things that are in the water in the sequences' would usually mean they might be excluded, and previously, 'we might have framed out a boat or a buoy or gone: "Oh, actually … the water conditions are not really good enough for this."'
But now such things are being left in as 'we're really leaning into that authenticity … As AI booms we will probably lean more into the more organic', murkier and less polished footage.

In other words, thanks to AI, they're not going to bother to make it look good anymore. That way people know it was created by a human.

(That's pretty much the same reason I don't bother to edit my writing these days.)

Even though the footage might be rough, Blue Planet III does sound pretty interesting if you're interested in seeing God's creation in action.

That includes never-before-seen action of dolphins using sea sponges to block holes in coral to trap fish, captured using underwater CCTV - developed by the programme's producer and director, Yoland Bosiger.
Over the four years of filming across five oceans, BBC Studios 'continually innovated', said the series producer, Lara Bickerton, creating a 'mini-dome' camera to follow an octopus, a 'deep-sea selfie stick', camera operators wearing leg-mounted scooters to create immersive TikTok-style diving footage and using lasers to film deep-sea creatures.
Other remarkable animal behaviour captured in the programme includes grouper communicating with another species of fish; 200,000 crabs lining up in formation to feed; sea urchins using shells as sun hats; and footage involving penguins that echoes the Planet Earth II, 'iguana v snakes' sequence.

And not a drop of AI in the whole thing.

But I kind of hate that the directors are giving up framing nature's beauty in an eye-pleasing fashion because they're afraid they'll be accused of using AI.