South Park creators have a new political satire series with some of the best AI-generated deepfakes on the internet yet Trey Parker and Matt Stone, best known for their cartoon South Park, have created a new comedy deepfake series called Sassy Justice. The star of the show, Fred Sassy, is a local news reporter from Cheyenne, Wyoming, with the face of US President Donald Trump. Other notable characters include, erm, "Dialysis King" Mark …
This use of this technology in this manner is really novel but I just don't really care enough about public figures to enjoy them saying catchphrases and things like that.
I guess this is more for people who seem to crave celebrities? Perhaps I am just a luddite ;)
I think that is my issue with the genre of "Jewish / American comedy". It is clearly very clever and well designed but most of the jokes seem to center around us giving a damn who the respective people are in real life. Without this, we won't quite catch the irony or satire.
So whilst I would like to say the technology would be great if used in a different way... I think that would defeat the purpose of the whole technology!
If 2020 couldn't put the shiters up you any more, Stone and Parker come out with something truly incredible and unnerving.
How long before we see something like the Queen eating a Corgi on YouTube and it promoted as real? The thin end of the wedge, the slippy part of the slope, the destroyer of worlds etc.
And it's funny. So I like.
I blame the controllers - steering etc in a non binary way with tiny sticks and triggers is quite tricky to get right. I suppose I could spring for one of those steering wheel things, but then I would have (a) less money, and, worse, (b) fewer excuses.
"[...] steering etc in a non binary way with tiny sticks and triggers is quite tricky to get right."
A friend's sons were avid users of non-analogue movement games controls from when pre-teens. It made me wonder how they would transition to the analogue controls of a real car in their late teens. They seem ok.
I dunno, as a young un without much real driving experience I rounded a corner along some country lanes to discover the whole road was now a sheet of ice that continued around the next bend forty yards away.
Though most credit must go to lady luck, I must also thank the hours I'd spent on the rally sections of Gran Turismo on the PlayStation... I eased off the throttle, didn't use the brakes, turned very early into the corner and slowly reapplied the throttle. I got away with it. Strange thing is, it was my gut that 'remembered' this procedure from the PlayStation, even though of course my gut had never experienced g-forces when playing video games.
The deep fake of William Shatner doing the presenting wasn't very convincing. ;-)
(And when Trump was denying he was ill, he should have just claimed he'd choked on a pretzel)
I sincerely hope that this poorly written article was copy-pasted by an exploited churnalist intern, and not by someone pretending to be a real journalist.
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