So, how much money do you think Matt and Trey are going to sue them for?
False. The Hollywood strikes (plural) are not principally about AI.
A more salient issue is that streaming TV & movie services do not pay residuals.
They are about both.
Short term streaming residuals are important.
Long term AI protections are a must.
I almost feel like the AI proposal was a form of ‘dead cat’ strategy; while everyone is understandably angry about AI and fixated on that, no-one is talking about the actual issue that kicked all this off (the share of residual royalty payments)
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Where can you watch this? I wanna see how well it works.
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Thanks! Clips were dull and weird. The first clip felt like “insert name here” material. The longer episode everyone just stares straight ahead and speaks in monotone. I have to wonder how much the material was “massaged” or edited to get the final result.
I’m guessing there was a fair amount of prompting scene by scene. It’s very impressive technically but it definitely falls flat at the moment
I’m not so sure. There were some bits where there was simply stage directions or general descriptions of things happening, like “(Mett Porker makes some racist jokes)”, with the characters just standing there staring instead of doing what was described. That looks bad, but suggests to me that very little human touch-up was done to the output. Those would have been obvious and easy for a human to fix if there was a human touch intervening any of this.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the AI was provided with a paragraph or so of prompting telling it what sort of episode to generate, and then it just let fly and we got this.
Where’s the profanity, the swearing? AI, more like Artificially limited, that’s the only joke. Kyle not calling Cartman a fatass once, what?
If that’s really from the show I’m amazed. That seems super self aware, <laughs nervously>
“Our toasters, really? I always knew that little bastard was up to something”
"Fable started in 2018 as a spinoff from Facebook’s Oculus (how times have changed since then), working on VR films — a medium that never really took off. Now it has seemingly pivoted to AI, "
I wonder how much of the ai hype is just huge investments into hardware, looking for profits.
Can you link the episode? I have been so starved from media because of this strike. I am willing to consume it
Here you go. It’s rather cardboard, but that’s kind of apt for South Park style.
Just FYI, the CEO of Fable Studios is one Edward Saatchi. His father is Maurice Saatchi whose advertising agency was partially responsible for ten years of Conservative rule under Margaret Thatcher. The family absolutely has previous with union bashing.
SP is already really shitty animation though, so they’re setting the bar really, really low
AI is too polite to make a compelling South Park episode honestly could be an interesting premise for a South Park episode though
They played around with making an AI generated episode of black mirror but it wasn’t good enough to be compelling.
It’s truly impressive and severely boring all at the same time. Thing is, this is really early.
Even if they don’t advance the AI significantly a couple more years in r&d and they could probably make something out of this at least something that would power South Park episodes.
Oh no, what if they use this technology to make cartoon version of celebrities like me say things that I would never actually say?
The better question is: do they have to sue the AI instead?
You can definitely tell the writing was AI. The characters spoke like they are in an infomercial. I couldn’t watch the whole thing.
