The 'Middle-earth cruise' AI video is fooling people into wanting the trip
Mother-Pear-2392 · reddit · 2026-10-25
A Reddit post — 'paid extra for the middle earth cruise and got THIS' — shows towering Gondor-style king statues rising from a fjord while tourists film with their phones: an obvious AI-generated video posing as a real LOTR-themed cruise. These hyper-real AI travel videos keep blurring the line, to the point people genuinely want to book the same trip — another textbook case of AI video passing as real.
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