long, exasperated groan: “Bringing Harry Houdini back from the dead could be a portent for the future of documentaries.”

It is a perfect example of AI slop, a phrase we like to use for anything that is AI-heavy. Weird micro dramas. Karma-farming fake videos on social media. “We are Charlie Kirk.” Yet usually the AI slop is coming from the fringes. People not already working in the entertainment world and eager to get a piece of the profit pie. This is coming from Fox, albeit the right wing news entertainment version of Fox and not The Simpsons-and-FX version owned by Disney. Fox Nation is a streaming service providing curated content for Fox News super fans. AI slop appearing there, a small service with limited content, makes the slop feel even more sloppy. Watching the doc, I could practically hear a cigar-chomping executive shouting “slop em up, boys.”   Bringing Harry Houdini back from the dead could be a portent for the future of documentaries.

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