Alex Gibney’s Musk documentary premieres in Venice with an AI-simulated interview

Alex Gibney’s four-hour documentary on Elon Musk premiered at the Venice Film Festival, featuring an AI-generated CGI avatar that delivers Musk’s own past interview excerpts after he refused to be filmed. The film, screened out of competition, argues that Musk’s unchecked power—exemplified by algorithm changes on X that promoted “vitriol and hate”—has extended from technology into politics and media, while deliberately using disclosed synthetic likeness and legal review to avoid deep-fake controversies.