# People Think AI Images of Hollywood Sign Burning Are Real

Source: https://www.404media.co/hollywood-sign-burning-ai-images-la-wildfire
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Submitted by misha on 2025-01-11 UTC, 1 upvote, 0 comments

## Summary

A viral video showing the Hollywood sign burning behind a wildfire is AI-generated, not real footage. A Community Note on one of the posts said that when the video was shared, Hollywood sign livestreams showed the sign was fine. Hollywoodsign.org, which runs a live webcam pointed at the sign, told fact-checking site Snopes that Griffith Park is temporarily closed as a safety precaution, but the sign itself is not affected and is secure.

## Article

There’s a video going viral this week of the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles with a wildfire raging behind it, letters glowing in the blaze. It’s a powerful scene, up there with the burning McDonald’s sign in imagery that’s come out of this week’s devastating fires spreading across LA.

Unfortunately goes hard pic.twitter.com/Hzglibzs4t

— Joseph 🕊️ (@CaudilloXIV) January 9, 2025

I've seen several people sharing this same video with shades of shock and heartbreak. But it’s AI-generated. When it was posted, according to a Community Note on one of the posts, a look at the Hollywood sign livestreams showed the sign was fine; as of writing, the feeds are down, but Hollywoodsign.org, a website that runs a live webcam pointed at the sign, told fact-checking site Snopes "Griffith Park is temporarily closed as a safety precaution, but the Sign itself is not affected and is secure — and the cameras will slowly but surely come back up."

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