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Mia Goth's AI-faked selfie spread from a paid blue-check fan account

An AI-faked selfie of Mia Goth spread from a paid blue-check fan account her team had reported. Meta removed it for impersonation, but its AI disclosure rule does not cover still images.

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An AI-faked selfie of Mia Goth spread across Instagram last week from a fan account with more than a million followers and a blue check. Goth has no social media accounts at all. Her representative, Christine Tripicchio, told The Verge the team had "filed multiple complaints with Instagram" about the account, which "continues to post counterfeit, AI images" of the actress.

Hundreds of thousands of people liked the picture, and outlets including People wrote it up as if it were real. Tripicchio called it "incomprehensible" that Instagram "prioritizes the dissemination of forged and manipulated images over the protection and integrity of a public figure's likeness." Meta then told The Verge the account was removed for impersonating a public figure.

The detail that matters is the badge. The account called itself a fan page, but its blue check came through Meta Verified, the paid subscription, and it looks almost identical to the badge that once meant an account really was that person. Meta's own rules only require people to disclose AI on realistic video and audio, so a single faked photo never had to carry a label.

In practice, Meta acted on the impersonation, not on the AI, and only after the picture had spread. If your work uses a real person's face, get their consent and label the image yourself, because on a still picture Meta's rules will not ask you to.

Source: The Verge, Variety, Rolling Stone, Meta Transparency Center, Oct 13, 2026.

Provenance — The Verge; Variety; Rolling Stone · Status: verified: HIGH (The Verge + Variety + Rolling Stone)

An AI-faked selfie of Mia Goth spread from a verified fan account

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At View Conference, Sony Imageworks, ILM and Skydance Animation bosses talk AI and innovation, and the room keeps asking about jobs

At View Conference, seven studio bosses kept every option open on AI, and an hour later the Forgotten Island co-director said his film used none, to applause. Every quote rests on one Cartoon Brew reporter.

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At View Conference in Turin on Wednesday, seven executives who run some of the biggest visual effects and animation studios spent an hour talking about AI and kept every door open. Laurens Ehrmann of The Yard said AI "can compress execution time, but it cannot compress taste." ILM's Janet Lewin warned of "a fallacy about this magic bullet," and later admitted that many studio heads answer to "a parent company that makes decisions that we can't control."

Seventy-five minutes later, in the same room, the moderator asked four directors how AI had been used on their films. Januel Mercado, co-director of DreamWorks' Forgotten Island, answered at once: "We didn't use any AI." The crowd shouted and applauded. Pixar's Kenna Harris chose narrower words, saying they "didn't use generative AI on Toy Story 5," and Joel Crawford said AI "copies the hell out of what we've done."

There is one caveat on all of it, because every quote comes from a single Cartoon Brew reporter, Jamie Lang, and we found no recording of either session.

In practice, both rooms named the same scarce thing, which is judgment. If you make work, show the decisions in your reel, treat your credits as part of the film, and say exactly what you did and did not use, because "no AI" and "no generative AI" are not the same answer.

Source: Cartoon Brew, View Conference, Oct 15, 2026.

Read the full article: thegenerated.com/stories/view-conference-execs-directors-ai-20261016

Provenance — Cartoon Brew: Executives from Sony, ILM, Skydance talk AI and innovation, but questions about jobs loom large; Cartoon Brew: Hollywood directors on the good, the bad and the ugly (AI); View Conference: Industry Executives Shaping the Future of Cinema (panel page) · Status: verified: MEDIUM (Cartoon Brew, two View Conference reports; panel listing confirmed on the View Conference site)

Studio bosses hedged on AI. An hour later, the directors said they used none

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At Kling's Busan panel, filmmakers say AI still needs traditional craft: 'You need experts to prevent everything looking the same'

At Kling's co-hosted Busan panel, the AI studio MooAm said it only hires AI artists who have directed live action. The session was vendor-hosted and interpreted, Kling backed Kim Sung-soo's short on undisclosed terms, and no recording was found.

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At the Busan film market on Oct 11, Kling AI co-hosted a panel of filmmakers who use its video tools, and the strongest message from its own stage was about old skills. Harry Hyun, CEO of the Korean AI studio MooAm, said AI images start to look alike because "everyone is using the same lighting, same everything," as Deadline reported. Her studio now hires only AI artists who have directed at least one live-action short, according to Variety, and its directing team includes an "AI coordinator" who decides which shots get generated and keeps them consistent.

Director Kim Sung-soo (12.12: The Day) told the room he will "never go back" to the way he used to make films. He also made his eight-minute Kafka short, Worm Train, with a nine-person crew that shot part of it conventionally, and with production support from Kling on terms nobody has disclosed. In an interview with the Korean outlet OhmyNews, he said tools like Kling, Veo and Higgsfield are built for what "99 out of 100 people would like" and produce "something strange" when you ask for the unusual (our translation).

Kling co-hosted the session and paid for two English write-ups about Kim, and no recording of the interpreted panel was found, so each quote is one outlet's rendering of it.

In practice, a live-action short on your reel is now the entry ticket at one Korean AI studio, and the strange idea the model resists is the one worth your hours.

Source: Deadline, Variety, OhmyNews, PD Journal, Oct 11 to 15, 2026.

Read the full article: thegenerated.com/stories/kling-busan-panel-kim-sung-soo-ai-craft-20261015

Provenance — Deadline — Kling AI panel; Variety — Kim Sung-soo: AI 'shows what's in your imagination'; Variety — Hong Jae Cheol on AI-native studios · Status: verified: MEDIUM (two sources, but panel commentary)

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On Kling's stage, Kim Sung-soo sold AI filmmaking. Off it, he said the tools serve '99 out of 100 people'

At Kling's co-hosted panel in Busan, director Kim Sung-soo said he will never go back to old methods, yet he made his eight-minute short with a nine-person crew and Kling production support on undisclosed terms. Off the stage he said tools like Kling, Veo and Higgsfield fail on anything unusual, and MooAm said it only hires AI artists who have directed live action.

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Illustration of a small film crew in silhouette on a subway carriage set, a camera operator on a dolly, a director leaning toward a monitor and an editor at a laptop, with gray screens and tracking marks outside the windows

A young office worker wakes up as a giant, oozing insect, and he still has to get to work on the subway. That is the premise of Worm Train, an eight-minute short inspired by Kafka's Metamorphosis, and for a while this year its director, Kim Sung-soo, thought it could not be made. The AI tools he tried could not show a giant insect crashing into a packed train crowd, so around March he shelved it.

Kim is not a hobbyist testing a new app. He directed 12.12: The Day and Asura: The City of Madness, and on Sunday 11 October he sat on a panel at the Asian Contents & Film Market in Busan and told the room he had once thought AI would destroy the industry. "I don't think so any more," he said, according to Deadline. Variety has him going further: "I'll never go back to the way I used to make films."

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Runway joins Claude Marketplace, so big companies can pay for AI video with their Anthropic commitment

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Nemspy's Arcane fan piece gives Jinx a sunny Taco Tuesday lunch

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A director revived her shelved AXE pitch as an AI spec, and it doubles as a demo for her employer

Cassandra Brooksbank remade a 2021 AXE pitch as a 60-second AI spec on Absurd, where she now works. Her plan-first method transfers, but no cost was disclosed and the film shows no spec label on screen.

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Mia Goth's AI-faked selfie spread from a paid blue-check fan account

At View Conference, Sony Imageworks, ILM and Skydance Animation bosses talk AI and innovation, and the room keeps asking about jobs

At Kling's Busan panel, filmmakers say AI still needs traditional craft: 'You need experts to prevent everything looking the same'

On Kling's stage, Kim Sung-soo sold AI filmmaking. Off it, he said the tools serve '99 out of 100 people'

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