Last month we reported on an AI slot video that took social media by storm. Well, another one around Las Vegas casinos has arrived making fresh claims:
I recently read that 10 casinos are closing in Las Vegas. Does this concern you?
Danny
It doesn’t concern us because the source of the claims is another AI-created video that uses a few nuggets of real news (such as layoff announcements) to draw inaccurate conclusions, and in some cases just make stuff up. The video has 400,000 views, but is clearly AI scripted and produced given its structure.
The script contains a variety of factual errors. It claims “The Drew” is going to close, but The Drew never opened – Fontainebleau was at one point being built as The Drew, but that never opened and it was ultimately sold to the original developers to finish the job they started, and Fountainbleau is open today.
The video claims the Rio cut ties with Caesars in 2025, when it was earlier (so they could run it themselves), and that they cut ties because the land was more useful without the casino.
Meanwhile the video fails to note the hundreds of millions invested in remodeling the Ipanema tower, upgrading the casino floor, and the slow and steady transformation of the various restaurant options, including the opening of a food hall. It says no one buys a 30 year old casino to operate it as a casino, but that isn’t true either.
Heck, it even mentions the Tropicana, which was already knocked down before 2026 – you can’t call a casino closing when it’s already closed.
For all the fear that AI is coming for our jobs, we don’t feel too worried about ours right now when it continually gets details about Vegas and casinos wrong to this degree.
Casinos and hotels come and go in Las Vegas. Circa was built on the land of a couple of former casinos. The Hard Rock is transforming what used to be the Mirage. Planet Hollywood today started as a reimagined Aladdin. Park MGM opened at the Monte Carlo, and was a smoking casinos before transforming into the strip’s first fully smokefree property when reopening after the pandemic.
Times change, people change, and properties change. What doesn’t change is Vegas is a constantly evolving location, one where chances get taken a nd draw attention, whether it’s F1, the Sphere, or a giant canopy over one of Vegas’ most famous streets.
Some of these risks will succeed and some will fail, but Vegas as a destination, even with its ups and downs, will march on.
So no, we’re not concerned, and the fact that 10 Vegas casinos aren’t closing makes us less so. Like others we have questions about the sanity of charging for parking, growing resort fees, $6.50 bottles of soda and other signs Vegas inflation could chase away visitors. But it’s in no danger of vanishing anytime soon.
