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.
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
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’s the episode since it’s not linked in the article. Not bad for ai. Not really comedy either.
Thanks for the link!
It’s not bad. For some reason Stan Kyle and Tolkien have pretty accurate voices, then Cartman and Garrison aren’t even close.
South Park would’ve made the mett porker pig go much further lol
‘Animate’ is a generous term here… there’s no animation beyond a simple idle animation, lips and eyes. Other then that every character is just frozen in place.
SP is already really shitty animation though, so they’re setting the bar really, really low
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.
Oh no, what if they use this technology to make cartoon version of celebrities like me say things that I would never actually say?
AI is too polite to make a compelling South Park episode honestly could be an interesting premise for a South Park episode though
Only when it’s intentionally censored and trained to react in a particular way. When it’s not, you remember it was trained on random internet content.
They played around with making an AI generated episode of black mirror but it wasn’t good enough to be compelling.
I remember how, years ago, an AI was asked to write a script for a Batman comic book, given a bunch of real comic issues as its learning input. The resulting script was horribly stilted, and hilarious to read. It was popular enough that an artist turned it into an actual comic book.
Today’s AIs have come a long way.
Edit: just out of curiosity, I asked ChatGPT to “write a Batman comic book script, with The Joker as the villain”. That’s it. No other input.
What came out was far less stilted than the one mentioned above, but bare-bones, extremely generic, and boring. The real Batman writers have little to fear at the moment.
The video is password protected now. Did anyone get a chance to download the episode?
The better question is: do they have to sue the AI instead?
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.
