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The Salt Path
2025 · Film · 115 min
Directed by Marianne Elliott
The profound story of husband and wife Raynor and Moth Winn, who embark on a 630-mile trek after being forcibly removed from their home. Hoping that in nature they will find solace and a sense of acceptance, they walk through the beautiful but rugged coastlines of South West England - a journey that is exhilarating, challenging, and liberating in equal measure. THE SALT PATH is a powerful portrayal of home, and how it can be lost and rediscovered in the most unexpected ways.
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It feels obvious, but people feel cheated when they have been cheated. If you learn that text was AI when it was presented as human written (even implicitly) then that's deception and people are right to feel deceived. Just as when "true story" films like The Salt Path turn out to be bullshit.
I think the real question is how people will feel about text that is explicitly labelled as AI generated.
Another book I was recently sad to learn was at fabricated is The Salt Path, which was great but apparently based on lies, the author was fleeing debt and lawsuits and stole $86,000 from their previous employer prior the walk. What is super sad is they didn't pay the people back they stole money from after their book became a best seller:
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-real-salt-path-how-the-couple-behind-a-bestseller-left-a-trail-of-debt-and-deceit
It's also became a movie staring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs.