We are about to enter a wild west of deepfakes. The next wave of entertainment industry documentaries will likely address the use of AI to recreate dead actors’ voices or faces. We will see documentaries about the SAG-AFTRA strikes and the fight against generative AI. The question "Is this real?" will be the central theme of the genre.

A boring documentary is one where everyone agrees. If you are documenting the making of a famous album, interview the engineer who hated the producer. If you are documenting a TV show, find the writer who was fired. Conflict is the engine of drama. An entertainment industry documentary that is a "love fest" gets a 5-minute slot on YouTube. A documentary with teeth gets a Netflix deal.