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Prebunk: AI-Generated Videos Of Ships Encountering Whales Are Digital Fisherman's Tales -- Boatloads Of Whale-Sized Fin Fiction

Fact-checked by FindFake · 6 October 2026

Have you seen viral videos showing dramatic encounters with whales at sea, frequently presented with a boat for scale? Lead Stories has spotted a number of such videos recently and has found that many of them were created using artificial...

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