When the False Becomes Real: Reflections on How AIGC ‘Generative’ Documentary Creation ‘Anchors Reality’
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.53469/ijomsr.2025.08(09).10Keywords:
AIGC, Metaverse, Generative Documentary, Authenticity, Digital EthicsAbstract
From documentary films to television documentaries and then to web-native documentaries, since the birth of documentary, each evolution of its form has been closely related to technological progress. With the advent of the virtual image revolution, computer-generated digital virtual imaging technology has increasingly penetrated into the documentary field, which regards “truth” as its lifeblood, and the complex relationship between “virtual images” and documentary “authenticity” has received widespread attention. This paper takes Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) technology and the “metaverse” virtual space empowered by AIGC technology as the core of discussion, and reflects on how documentaries “anchor reality” through three aspects: the elaboration of documentary “authenticity,” the application of AIGC technology in the documentary field, and the construction of “authenticity” in generative documentary creation.
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