tl;dr – A recent (AI-generated) video surfaced on the internet, prompting rumors of a lavish new hotel.
Recently, a video surfaced on the internet featuring a rendering of a ‘new Dubai’ hotel – a high-rise that featured a defunct A380 on its crest. Though clearly wild (and the product of today’s AI technologies), it prompted enough buzz to warrant a response from the Gulf carrier itself.
Here’s the video:
(FWIW, the original features different music, which was copyrighted, so I had to change it to something Youtube would approve).
In a reply to Gulf News (who reached out to Emirates), the airline issued the following statement:
“We are aware of a video circulating on social media depicting an Emirates Air Hotel. Emirates confirms it is fabricated content and untrue.”
This one is pretty obvious, but it’s already exhausting to see how an AI-generated content-filled world constantly necessitates verification, even for seemingly trivial things.
