I don't buy the argument we'll just automatically learn to see the CGI as fake. This is a selection effect: you see as fake only the CGI you see as fake; if it

I don't buy the argument we'll just automatically learn to see the CGI as fake. This is a selection effect: you see as fake only the CGI you see as fake; if it just looks real and fools you, how will you ever know you were fooled? Early CGI was bad, but it kept getting better every year. When I watch documentaries or CGI breakdowns, I'm routinely shocked at how things I would never in a million years have predicted were fake were fake. When someone shows a clip of a glowing floating space alien octopus, you can know it's fake because you know there are no space alien octopuses in real life; but when it's some box in a corner with some stuff on it which the director added in prod because he realized he needed a more homey and cluttered feeling for that scene...