I was on the side of it being fake because the part where he's frozen the background is frozen/air around him seems to be barely moving. The background I can get that it's so far away doesn't look like it's moving. The other thing is the altitude is so high/can't breath but yeah.
This seems like the first video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QMLSLQYMPI
Update: news sites have pulled the video now, confirming parts of it were AI generated.
https://deadline.com/2025/05/nbc-viral-chinese-paraglider-vi...
I guess we'll have to take everything with a grain of salt from now on as any evidence can be faked with AI. I'm likely naive since I don't understand what the point of faking this was. Clout chasing? Monetizing this somehow?
Let’s not rule out virtual production techniques as that first scene of him frozen is clearly a set.
We'll have to adapt to it, obviously, but I don't think it's all bad. AI can make non-real but really easy to understand video, so for something like a piece of news where you just take a peek and move on, it's actually pretty much perfect.
He looks like Jack Nicholson from the end of The Shining...
AI has finally reached a point at which it can fake videos well enough that most people will believe it. Just in time for the fake Epstein suicide video!
Epstein didn't kill himself, nor is he dead. He's living out his retirement on another pedo island, as a reward for a kompromate job well done.
Whatever the outcome of this specific case, we are clearly at a tipping point in history - it’s now basically impossible to say for certain if a fake video is real, and potentially even more problematic - also impossible to say for sure that a real video is not fake.
The whole concept of ‘video evidence’ is going up in smoke.
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I used to do paragliding and to me the video looks like low effort green screen more than AI.
The colons don't behave like that when flying because you have a tension exactly as much as your weight and it will vibrate and jiggle as it is rare to have perfect laminar flow especially over land(it gets more stable at hight altitudes but not that stable). Also, you are supposed to have 30 to 60 kph wind blowing at you all the time because that's how you stay airborn which means the handles and all kind of fiber and attachments will constantly move.
We were told stories about people who actually went to that altitude after being sucked by a cumulonimbus cloud and survived, so it's probably not impossible but this video screams fake at the second you look at it.
I'm surprised anybody bought it and I will be very surprised if it turns to be real. I find the one with the donkey much more convincing.
At least it has some wind and tension: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xqWN3h32wrA