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South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes

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Re: South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes

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Post by rexpop »

echelon wrote: post #113
hospadar wrote: post #57

This is SO GREAT! I often feel deep existential dread about deepfakes and the lag between when they are viable (now) and when everyone stops trusting video that doesn't have some kind of rock-solid signed/encrypted/testified provenance (years from now or never?). What better way to educate the public about deepfake technology than with over-the top satire?

I agree 100%. Deepfake hysteria is absurd. I'm the author of https://vo.codes , and my goal has been to make deep fakes as accessible as possible so people become familiar with them. You know what people use vo.codes for? Memes. That's it. A number of journalists have decided the technology is entirely confusing and deceitful. While there are new risks posed by deep fakes, I believe the potential for good far outweig…

> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

― Upton Sinclair

Re: South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes

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Post by rexpop »

grawprog wrote: post #55

I understand the worries behind deep fakes, but i'm going to be a bit facetious here, hasn't getting the most realistic, lifelike images always been the goal of computer graphics? Wouldn't deepfakes be the ultimate culmination of lifelike CGI. So lifelike it's indistinguishable from the real thing? Like for most of my life, this is the goal I keep hearing about. Now it's here, suddenly it's too real. I dunno just see…

The question isn't "what's wrong with the technology," but rather "what harm can it do in the context of our societal development?"

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Post by unfunco »

fredley wrote: post #7

I _think_ that the Michael Cain section is Peter Serafinowicz doing a Michael Cain impression (which has then been deepfaked), but it could be Lyre Bird or similar! The fact that I really can't make my mind up which it could be and the weird sense of doubt, to me, means that this has hit the mark perfectly. I've been thinking about this video a lot since I first saw it. It's genuinely very unsettling.

Peter Serafinowicz is a co-creator of the show and I think Sassy Trump was originally his idea, I remember seeing him do it on The Late Show.

Re: South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes

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Post by rexpop »

stanrivers wrote: post #11

This feels like the start of something very bad - they are going to be upfront about the deepfakes... others are not. It’s going to get to the point where you can’t even say in a court room “well we have video of him doing this”. The fact that deepfakes will exist will erode confidence in even those things that are true. At the same time it will add additional fake situations to the conversation. Worst part is that e…

> you can’t even say in a court room “well we have video of him doing this”.

Good. We should dispense with retributive justice, and replace it with restorative, transformative systems which are a noop on the wrongly accused.

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Post by GilbertErik »

cableshaft wrote: post #70
fredley wrote: post #7

I _think_ that the Michael Cain section is Peter Serafinowicz doing a Michael Cain impression (which has then been deepfaked), but it could be Lyre Bird or similar! The fact that I really can't make my mind up which it could be and the weird sense of doubt, to me, means that this has hit the mark perfectly. I've been thinking about this video a lot since I first saw it. It's genuinely very unsettling.

Wouldn't be surprised. While searching him on Youtube I even stumbled on Peter Serafinowicz's appearance on Stephen Colbert where they're talking about him even doing 'bad lip reading' videos for trump in different personalities, one of them being 'Sassy Trump', so he might have had something to do with this show coming about in general. I don't think he's doing the voice for Sassy Justice, though. That sounds more l…

I think you need to listen. There's little differences between Peter Serafinowicz as Fred Sassy and Trey Parker as Al Gore. There's tiny little mistakes in the voice. I think you need to watch it again, but this time watch with your ears.

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Post by agency »

pram wrote: post #59
fredley wrote: post #7

I _think_ that the Michael Cain section is Peter Serafinowicz doing a Michael Cain impression (which has then been deepfaked), but it could be Lyre Bird or similar! The fact that I really can't make my mind up which it could be and the weird sense of doubt, to me, means that this has hit the mark perfectly. I've been thinking about this video a lot since I first saw it. It's genuinely very unsettling.

He also did Michael Cain in his show, it’s extremely spot on. https://youtu.be/HdBZ3Pg0-OM

Why does it best? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFIQIpC5_wY

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Post by b0rsuk »

keiferski wrote: post #85
lkxijlewlf wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This works in a courtroom. This won't work for a politician who retweets a faked video that then incites real violence. And that , at least for now, is where we truly need to be concerned.

The onus of responsibility is still on the person doing the violence. Contrary to the fearmongering, I'd say deepfakes will just make people not believe things they read on the Internet (again), especially as the technology becomes more widespread.

So people will believe what they choose to believe. A populist's wet dream. Truly nothing to be afraid of!

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Post by davidw »

chrisseaton wrote: post #116
hospadar wrote: post #57

This is SO GREAT! I often feel deep existential dread about deepfakes and the lag between when they are viable (now) and when everyone stops trusting video that doesn't have some kind of rock-solid signed/encrypted/testified provenance (years from now or never?). What better way to educate the public about deepfake technology than with over-the top satire?

> I often feel deep existential dread about deepfakes and the lag between when they are viable (now) and when everyone stops trusting video that doesn't have some kind of rock-solid signed/encrypted/testified provenance (years from now or never?). Maybe we'll have to go back to sworn witness statements. Worked for thousands of years.

Think how many instances of someone's word vs the police there have been. It did not 'work' very well. Mobile phone video has changed some things for the better.
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