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A full episode of South Park generated by AI

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Re: A full episode of South Park generated by AI

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So much for the writers strike; also love how Cartman's voice is becoming more like the others given AI has to track Parker's voice changes over the years.

if you showed this to the studios and told them that it would only get better from here, I think the strike may never end - the promise of infinitely generated TV ready writing is something studios would find irresistible

Re: A full episode of South Park generated by AI

#12
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36782314

I'll readd my comment from that thread:

This isn't AI generated it was created with some assistance from AI.

They used AI to generate character dialog and voices (easily the worst parts of the video) while the humans guided the plot and picked the lines of dialog that would be used.

The backgrounds were AI generated in collaboration with humans iterating on the prompt and hand selecting the results. The characters were animated traditionally including the intro.

Re: A full episode of South Park generated by AI

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post #6

There's a dead comment here that mentions the political correctness of the model used to generate the episode. I think this is valid criticism, especially because efforts to "clean" training data of limiting ideologies has shown some fruit.

It's mine and no, it wasn't valid criticism! I was exhibiting offensive behavior but now I know better not to doubt my peers judgement but always accept it wholeheartedly.

Re: A full episode of South Park generated by AI

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post #11

So much for the writers strike; also love how Cartman's voice is becoming more like the others given AI has to track Parker's voice changes over the years.

if you showed this to the studios and told them that it would only get better from here, I think the strike may never end - the promise of infinitely generated TV ready writing is something studios would find irresistible

The studios know about this, and yes, that's what they are expecting.

But I expect the AI will always require adjustments from humans, not AI on its own. And that's what the studio's want: AI output, with edits from humans, including both writers and actors.

And that's exactly what the union doesn't want, and they are right, this will mean a significant change in their jobs. But time moves on, and technology gets better.

They might be able to delay this (I expect a contract without AI, for now), but as soon as some independent studio starts creating good AI+human output the studios aren't going to do that again.

Re: A full episode of South Park generated by AI

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post #7
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

not yet. the writing isn't professional quality. might help for drafting though

And that is one of the main issues in the current WGA strike. Under the previous contract, writers were paid less for editing an existing script than for writing an original script. They are worried that producers will cut their incomes by using AI to write rough drafts, then pass it over to human writers to redo.

I read a claim stating that studios were requesting that actors sign over their ai generated likeness to the studios in perpetuity. Which if accurate is insane. Dude could appear for 5 minutes in a movie as an extra, get paid $500 and then never get paid again but show up in hundreds of movies.

Re: A full episode of South Park generated by AI

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post #8

Wow that’s actually better than I expected. The Seinfeld show was awkward and clearly AI. The scene with the pig was actually funny - the AI only tells racist jokes because it’s trained on the internet. Assuming AI came up with that, that’s amazing

This is curated/guided, while the Seinfield stuff was not.

Re: A full episode of South Park generated by AI

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And that is one of the main issues in the current WGA strike. Under the previous contract, writers were paid less for editing an existing script than for writing an original script. They are worried that producers will cut their incomes by using AI to write rough drafts, then pass it over to human writers to redo.

I read a claim stating that studios were requesting that actors sign over their ai generated likeness to the studios in perpetuity. Which if accurate is insane. Dude could appear for 5 minutes in a movie as an extra, get paid $500 and then never get paid again but show up in hundreds of movies.

Why is that insane? He worked for 5 minutes only. Most people don't get paid over and over for working just once.

And in any case it would be easy enough to create a hybrid likeness that combines a few people, with the final result looking like none of them, if you have an issue with the image of someone being used.

Re: A full episode of South Park generated by AI

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post #6

There's a dead comment here that mentions the political correctness of the model used to generate the episode. I think this is valid criticism, especially because efforts to "clean" training data of limiting ideologies has shown some fruit.

Yeah, all of my previous jailbreaks like my Andrew Dice Clay one stopped working. I use to be able to get it to say crazy stuff about either Obama or Trump. But I can’t break it anymore. On the other hand “PC” is usually used by the Right. I couldn’t get it to say anything that’s not neutral.

In its current form, it was adopted by the right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness

For my money, I've yet to get a coherent answer as to why a simple ask regarding common courtesy ("don't be a dick to people who aren't like you") is a bad thing. People immediately shoot off on tangents about freedom of speech, and "Cultural Marxism" (lol) and what-have-you.

Re: A full episode of South Park generated by AI

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post #10
post #8

Wow that’s actually better than I expected. The Seinfeld show was awkward and clearly AI. The scene with the pig was actually funny - the AI only tells racist jokes because it’s trained on the internet. Assuming AI came up with that, that’s amazing

What's amazing to me is that without reading (watching?) too much into it, and me not being a seasoned South Park viewer, this could easily pass as a real episode.

> this could easily pass as a real episode.

Hard disagree. The animation, pacing, sound, everything is of considerable lower quality. You can watch full episodes on their website to compare.

https://www.southparkstudios.com/seasons/south-park

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