If it gets any better, then Matt and Trey can really say: Dey dook rr jerbs!!
A full episode of South Park generated by AI
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Re: A full episode of South Park generated by AI
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Skimming the video, 100% of the dialog was plodding, tedious, unfunny and predictable. I don't know South Park very well but I know snappy dialog is somewhat needed. Just as much, endless vacuous paragraphs on the potential and dangers of AI seems unlikely to be what sustains interest in show.
They actually had an episode about "the dangers of AI" recently (the boys used ChatGPT to avoid having to text with their needy girlfriends), it was VASTLY better than this fan made one.
https://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/8byci4/south-park-...
Re: A full episode of South Park generated by AI
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I mean, the right has its own form of political correctness (it's not OK to say climate change is real, that non-heterosexuals have rights etc etc)
Re: A full episode of South Park generated by AI
#34So 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
Why do we need the studios then?
Re: A full episode of South Park generated by AI
#35So 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
that is until AI obsoletes the TV format entirely because it can produce new content constantly
Re: A full episode of South Park generated by AI
#36Discussed 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 o…
Sounds like more work than making an episode without AI to be honest.
Given that they were originally cranking episodes out in less than a week, yeah probably.
I remember being astonished when their Elian Gonzalez episode aired four days after the raid, directly referencing it.
Re: A full episode of South Park generated by AI
#37This paper rings a lot of alarm bells for me. It's rambling, written in a very odd style, and contains a lot of useless figures. Is this one of those fake paper pranks or something?
You know that would actually be meta level genius if this is really an experiment in seeing if AI can generate a paper that will get accepted.
Re: A full episode of South Park generated by AI
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
How the hell do you build an acting career if the studios can just photgraph you once and then use your likeness forever? It's obviously exploitative. This is why unions exist .
It's not meant for people who are planning an acting career. There's only like 10,000 or so people in the entire guild who have an acting career (using SAG-AFTRA's figures), the rest only do it occasionally. And of those, barely 3,000 actually make any real money.
Acting is not really a viable job career in general, except for those few who get lucky.
> This is why unions exist.
I know, they exist to keep their members in jobs. But the world is changing, and their jobs are changing.
Re: A full episode of South Park generated by AI
#39There'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.
This deerlike animal is a fine horse indeed.
Re: A full episode of South Park generated by AI
#40This paper rings a lot of alarm bells for me. It's rambling, written in a very odd style, and contains a lot of useless figures. Is this one of those fake paper pranks or something?
It seems like it could well be fake. The Twitter account that launched this paper [1] links to a website [2] for the company with a fake address and what seems like fake employees (they all have no LinkedIn profiles).
The address is 500 Baudrillard Drive, San Francisco, CA 94127 which doesn't exist, but Jean Baudrillard [3] was a French sociologist and philosopher focused on media, culture, technological communication, and the concept of “hyperreality”
1: https://twitter.com/fablesimulation 2: https://www.thesimulation.co/ 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard