satire

In what should be a pivotal scene, “Hamnet” looks much more like a satire of lachrymose Oscar bait than a portrait of the real thing.

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour put a symphony orchestra on stage alongside the actors in a savage satire which dramatised the plight of Soviet dissidents locked away in mental hospitals.

When AI-generated videos portray something that never happened with such realism, it stops being satire and is instead a false representation.

One landmark example the author notes is the first “fat-in”—a mix of protest and satire—which was staged in 1967 by a New York radio DJ.

Beauty, appliance maker Ninja and BMW had “ghosted” them too, sometimes but not always adding a hashtag or note indicating that their videos were satire to avoid confusion or potential legal trouble.