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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 ehsankia »

mattnewton wrote: post #238
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.

I thought the punchline was going to be a wavenet-style audio deepfake for that segment haha, I had no idea it was a person doing it haha. It explains why they repeatedly said it was impossible for a _human_ to do a perfect impersonation.

In my experience wavenet-audio isn't that good. You can definitely hear the difference. That sounded very natural. I'd be surprised if it wasn't an impression.

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Post by aasasd »

BenGosub wrote: post #68

Funny how the image caption is "Parker and Stone at a pre-corona premiere", when the photo is like, 20 years old, while the epidemic has been this year.

Yep. I decided to check if they really still look anything like that. Shouldn't have done it.

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Post by chillwaves »

chrisseaton wrote: post #261
chillwaves wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A video is data that exists with forensic context. What we need are institutions that are trusted to verify this data, like journalism. Except it is being allowed to be perverted for profit or ideology.

What does a journalist know about verifying video data? And isn't a journalist going to bring their own side of the story to it? Hardly independent.

I'm sure the New York Times, with its resources, is able to hire some help. It's honestly incomprehensible to me that anyone would think otherwise.

A journalist that has a reputation for truth would hopefully bring that integrity to the process. Every party will have some kind of perspective or bias, we should pick the ones who are incentivized towards truth vs lying for profit/sensation.

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

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Post by aaron695 »

This came out a week ago.

Why do we need to wait for the media to tell us it's interesting?

It's the first attempt at mainstream commercialisation of Deep Fakes I think? It seems like a big deal. It's meta still, they are cheating a lot.

But it's a working example of whether deep fakes might or might not work in the near future.

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Post by StavrosK »

agency wrote: post #178
pram wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I think Rob Brydon's is the best.

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Post by filoleg »

chrisseaton wrote: post #261
chillwaves wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A video is data that exists with forensic context. What we need are institutions that are trusted to verify this data, like journalism. Except it is being allowed to be perverted for profit or ideology.

What does a journalist know about verifying video data? And isn't a journalist going to bring their own side of the story to it? Hardly independent.

>What does a journalist know about verifying video data?

I don't think the parent comment was using journalists as a specific group of people who should be the ones in charge of verifying video data. I took it more as "we need a dedicated group of people for verifying video data, similarly to how we had journalists verifying all other sorts of data for their articles since the dawn of journalism".

Goes without saying, but, also, the parent comment was clearly alluding to the "verification by journalists" in a traditional sense of proper investigative journalism, not "journalism" that is based on pulling random tweets without context from random no-names.

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

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Post by chillwaves »

sbmassey wrote: post #86
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…

Maybe people will learn to no longer believe partisan information sources, and organisations whose reputation is based solely on the veracity of their content will predominate.

The current media environment demonstrates that inaccurate reporting in favor of the audience biases is actually rewarded.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/523045-cable-news-october...

Tucker Carlson spent the month of October pushing Russian disinfo on Hunter Biden, all for it to culminate in "losing" his documents, re-finding them and then suddenly, inexplicably backing down.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-suddenly-says-i...

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

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Post by grenoire »

ehsankia wrote: post #281
mattnewton wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the punchline was going to be a wavenet-style audio deepfake for that segment haha, I had no idea it was a person doing it haha. It explains why they repeatedly said it was impossible for a _human_ to do a perfect impersonation.

In my experience wavenet-audio isn't that good. You can definitely hear the difference. That sounded very natural. I'd be surprised if it wasn't an impression.

That's exactly what Michael Caine would say!

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Post by p1necone »

1024core wrote: post #216
crankyoldcrank wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would've been funnier if it was Biden having the stroke. Much more believable. But a week before the election I guess only Trump is an acceptable target. Notice Biden didn't get mentioned a single time.. even when making fun of Trump's son-in-law, surely there's a better joke there about the picture of Hunter Biden with a crack pipe in his mouth that's more relevant to the topic. Or I guess, Matt and Trey know that's…

Just post under your own account; why create a new one for this comment?

Presumably they're actually aware they're being an ridiculous troll and don't want to tarnish their main account.

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Post by mistermann »

chillwaves wrote: post #287
sbmassey wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe people will learn to no longer believe partisan information sources, and organisations whose reputation is based solely on the veracity of their content will predominate.

The current media environment demonstrates that inaccurate reporting in favor of the audience biases is actually rewarded. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/523045-cable-news-october... Tucker Carlson spent the month of October pushing Russian disinfo on Hunter Biden, all for it to culminate in "losing" his documents, re-finding them and then suddenly, inexplicably backing down. https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-…

Can you post your source on this story being Russian disinformation please.
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