Title: "Behind the Spotlight: The Unseen World of Entertainment"

Why Entertainment Industry Documentaries Matter

5. The Future: Deepfakes and the Death of Verité

We are entering the post-evidence era. If generative AI can create a video of a celebrity saying anything, what happens to the documentary?

Not literally, of course. But as the credits rolled on Flicker: The True Cost of the Laugh Track, the air in the theater felt thick with ozone, like before a lightning strike. The documentary’s director, a forty-two-year-old former child star named Leo Kessler, sat in the back row, chewing his thumbnail.