“Before 2019” seems like a safe bet for pre-LLM years… but let’s see.
Don’t know the details, but a baseball player was giving an interview, and at the last moment basically blind caught a ball about to wreck the interviewer.
Felix Baumgartner’s freefall from the edge of space.
Edit: you asked for stories, read it as videos for some reason
I think most of them will include videos, what with that having been the gold standard of untamperability way back when.
As quality audio was. AI slop is eerily good at nailing the hit-like formula. On the other hand, AI is probably much worse at making realistic real life audio.
Videos count too.
The nerve gas report used to justify the invasion of Iraq was ripped from a scene in the Nicholas cage/sean Connery movie The Rock.
Ufo kid spilling on his dad in an interview
Remember that sign language interpreter for Nelson Mandela’s funeral?