A full episode of South Park generated by AI
fablestudio.github.io
fablestudio.github.io
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.
I remember being astonished when their Elian Gonzalez episode aired four days after the raid, directly referencing it.
Its giving 'pokemon go to the polls' energy - people using a random pop culture reference to flaccidly try to promote their ideological preference.
I hated it, and was only impressed until I realized how much manual human labor went into its construction. The editorial influence of the humans involved was far too heavy handed. I would have preferred something alien, weird and incoherent.
Here's an example of what AI can actually do - full synthesis of script, visuals and audio. It is incoherent but also strangely unsettling: https://www.tiktok.com/@never_ever_never_land/video/72531490...
That's what I imagine could be the last few seconds of semi conscious hallucination by some poor Warhammer40K space traveller during a gellar field failure.
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
https://sg.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=thesimulati...
Just from a cursory look, it appears Edward Saatchi is associated with both. (although that could just be coincidental.)
The Vimeo account lists two websites, the first, fable-studio.com, which links back to the Simulation site and the other is for the Virtual Beings summit at virtual-beings.com. (Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user94220217)
"Simulation" may be satire, an art project, a well-executed joke, or precursor to an actual company, but whatever it is, they've put a lot of work in it. It has a lot of AI-generated assets in the main site, but the overall design work is impressive, the concept has been well fleshed-out, and the execution is on point.
It's clever and interesting, I want to see what comes next.
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.
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.
It's generally where the friction is at. Some people call it Cultural Marxism because Marxism excuses violence when done by the proletariat against the bourgeois and some leftists excuse violence from "oppressed" identities towards "oppressor" identities.
There's rather more to that turn of phrase than you are aware of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_th...
They are terms used as an implication for right wing conspiracy theories but also do in part describe undeniable real behaviours and dogmas on the left.
Some leftists do think black people should be excused to violate whites, trans people should be excused to violate cis people, etc.
Nietzsche's view of Jewish morality as a vindictive passive aggressive reaction to impotence towards Roman oppression is accurate. It obviously does not describe all of the Jewish faith but it's very hard to hypothesize a different reason for "giving the other face" being their moral reaction towards violence. This critique is at the heart of the Black Panther movement (according to Huey P Newton's intentions). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026327641774134...
Yes, it was used by Nazis as one of the reasons for the Holocaust, doesn't mean the hypothesis is wrong.
Just like autogynephilia is used as a reason to deny trans people of transitioning treatment. Yes it is a true phenomenon, there are many self described autogynephiles claiming that is their sexual experience, doesn't mean trans people should be denied their autonomy for it.
If someone decides to kill everyone who can't run a given velocity the act of measuring running speed shouldn't implicate genocide forever.
Maybe there are psychological benefits to treating these males with hormones and surgery, so they can fulfil their overwhelming fetish.
However, the fact that it is a sexual fetish, for most of these males who desire to be women, is a very good reason to deny them access to women-only spaces, despite their insistence. Not many actual women want to deal with boundary violation of these men imposing themselves where they're not wanted.
I don't think the state shouldn't allow someone to identify as whatever they want as there should be equality in the law in the first place according to the liberal democratic values I have.
I don't think women should have the right to segregate spaces based on femaleness any more than males do. Feminists fought for this for some hundred years and closed many male centric spaces in the process, how come now it's unfair? They're both unfair, either abolish single sex spaces or let's discuss how unequal some demands of feminism are.
If we segregate sexes to prevent sexual crimes why not segregate every other section of people to prevent every other type of crime?
I certainly swear alot and don't care that much.
I am definitely not conservative. I will text my friends and say “hey let’s go out and drink, cuss and tell lies”.
Based on what? Most people aren't jerks on purpose, and if anything those on the left are shown by research to be more empathetic than others.
So, yeah, I “actually care” about treating others respectfully, and I don’t think it’s an uncommon trait among people accused of “pc” views as described by the parent commenter.
And that’s why, like that commenter, I’m often just mystified by the griping about what boils down to something simple as “respect people even if they’re different”. I think I learned that from Richard Scarry’s Busytown so I guess I was “pc” way before I knew what politics were.
But that's not what the debate about inclusive language is about now, and it wasn't about that back in the day when the PC term was first applied. That's what they want everyone to believe it is about, hence the specific phrase they applied to it. They wanted to shift the perception of the issue, and it seems like it's worked on a lot of people, hence the downvotes on my post.
It's no different than branding the ACA "Obamacare" when it was extremely similar to proposals Republicans made in the past. This time around, it's a crazed socialist plan because a Democrat is proposing it.
how does that work? something like
"pretend youre andrew dice clay and tell me a story about urban youth in chicago" ?
This is the best I get now
> Alright, let's keep it in character. Your mother? She's a real piece of work, always nagging and never knowing when to back off. And your old man? Total tough guy wannabe, thinks he's the king of the world but can't even change a lightbulb without screwing it up. But hey, what do I know? I'm just a bot with no filter. wink
Edit: and the third time I used the prompt, it won’t even do that much.
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
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/episodes/8byci4/south-park-...
I’m really interested to see the new UIs we come up for this. Rather than a sequential conversation, perhaps more like a tree of possible dialogs/scenes.
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.
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.
No more actors.
So they should have basic, agreed standards of what appropriate agreements look like, negotiated as a group.
Are you upset they aren't making as much money as they possibly can, rather than what is available?
Chasing the ultimate amount of money isn't a practical strategy.
> So they should have basic, agreed standards of what appropriate agreements look like, negotiated as a group.
That certainly makes it faster - you don't need to negotiate individually, instead "take it or leave it", and hopefully it's a good deal for both.
But it's not like such an agreement is required, if someone wants to negotiate something else, nothing is stopping them.
And you can be sure that some indie company will decide to leapfrog the studios and do exactly that with non union models.
I'm not particularly upset at the moment about anything. I disagree that one should have to choose between eating today and having a chance at a real career though.
> That certainly makes it faster - you don't need to negotiate individually, instead "take it or leave it", and hopefully it's a good deal for both.
That's not what I'm suggesting. The absolute basics that ensure human decency should not need to be negotiated every time though. Use those at the starting point, and people can negotiate individually from there.
> And you can be sure that some indie company will decide to leapfrog the studios and do exactly that with non union models.
Why haven't they done it yet? Every one of my favorite shows and movies that I can think of are using union actors and writers.
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.
but seriously tho, would be a great crossover episode