New Showrunner AI: The Sum Of All Hollywood’s Fears : TechNewsTalks

Incredible AI photos show what South Park characters would look like as a live-action show

People have been blown away by how accurate they are. Given how controversial and close to the line South Park is already, the robot mind behind the AI version had a lot to work with when someone prompted it to come up with its own scenes from the long-running show.

Unauthorized AI-Generated ‘South Park’ Episode Leaves WGA and SAG Strikers Enraged: “Straight To Hell”

As Eric Cartman would say: “Screw you guys, I’m going home!” During the height of this trend, South Park and its fans rallied against artificial intelligence as a form of creation. The latest season included an episode titled “Deep Learning,” in which the famed characters found themselves in trouble once their school discovered that students have been using artificial intelligence to do their assignments — and communicate with each other. The episode received a mixed reception and sparked controversy after it was revealed that it was co-written by the artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT. Can you thoroughly critique something while also insinuating its usefulness? And is South Park as subversive and smart as it considers itself to be?

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AI put me in a ‘South Park’ episode

The Simulation’s Showrunner AI dropped me into a South Park episode.. After watching myself starring in a South Park episode, though, I’m more worried than hopeful. The tech isn’t perfect yet — my voice sometimes sounds overly robotic, and characters pronounce my name differently almost every time — but it’s close enough. Saatchi and his team, including the AI research Philipp Maas, who developed the South Park simulation, still preview every episode to ensure they make sense. But with no end in strike for the Hollywood union strikes, it’s hard not to imagine some studio looking at this tool as a potential savior.

This Week In XR: Text To Episode GenAI, Futureverse Raises $54 Million, Apple GPT

What may seem bad for writers, paradoxically may give them more power than they have ever had before. Futureverse, an AI and metaverse technology and content company, has raiseds $54M to marry AI and Metaverse. The Auckland, NZ based company, is a roll up of eight companies seeking to create infrastructure and content for an open metaverse. Futureverse is comprised of Altered State Machine (AI), Non-Fungible Labs (creative engineering), Centrapay (digital asset payments), DOT (3D asset creation), Sylo (decentralized communications), SDK (Web3 payments), Centrapass (digital identity), Immersve (payments), Shadows Interactive (animation studio), and Altered Phoenix (games). The company has more 300 full-time employees in 16 countries. 10T Holdings led the round and included participation from Ripple.

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This is what AI thinks ‘South Park’ characters would look like in real life

Fans appear to be impressed Meanwhile, in other South Park news, co-creator Trey Parker is set to direct a live-action comedy film produced by Kendrick Lamar. The untitled collaboration between Lamar and South Park creators Parker and Matt Stone was announced last year, who were all producing the project with the rapper’s longtime manager Dave Free.

Fable unveils Showrunner AI to create South Park-like TV shows with you as the star

Fable has released Showrunner AI technology, dubbed SHOW-1, which can generate new episodes of TV shows with you as the star. “I can imagine a world where there’s a kind of AI syndication, after like three seasons of a show. There is enough of a formula established. AI syndication takes over and the show just goes on forever,” Saatchi said. “Whether that’s the studio controlling it, or whether that’s people saying I could actually fix the final season of Game of Thrones or could give you whatever you want. You just give it a prompt, and it’ll generate. If you want to have an episode where Captain Picard goes to a diplomatic meeting with Klingons, it all goes wrong, blah, blah, blah, you can have that.”

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South Park Gets Live-Action Treatment With AI

Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman become real kids in South Park AI artwork. Earlier this year, South Park became the first official tv show in using Artificial Intelligence to write an episode of the series. The team used ChatGPT to develop Deep Learning, the fourth episode of the thirteen season. The tool was used with an ironic purpose, since the plot of the episode itself sought to reflect on the use of AI since it has become a trend. In Deep Learning, the friends use ChatGPT to do their homework and write love letters to their girlfriends, but are eventually discovered thanks to a new AI detection technology used by school authorities.

New Showrunner AI: The Sum Of All Hollywood’s Fears

Its creator says the text-to-episode Generative AI is too dangerous to release to the public. As Hollywood actors and writers strike, a company called The Simulation (formerly Fable Studio) has introduced Showrunner, a new AI application that can create 22-minute generative AI TV fan and parody episodes of popular shows. To demonstrate the power of Showrunner, The Simulation released a 22- minute TV episode of South Park today, “Westland Chronicles,” which centers on the ongoing WGA (Writers Guild of America) strike and a Hollywood studio, Bizney, that uses AI with disastrous results. The episode, and Showrunner’s technology, confirm the threat of AI is a real, not existential, problem. Indeed, Showrunner’s creators say it’s too dangerous to release to the public.

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South Park AI Art Turns Characters Into Realistic Live-Action (Including A Dead Kenny)

Would live-action South Park work? This is in addition to, of course, the fact that some humor in the show would feel a lot more inapproprite if it was presented in live-action. The charm of the animation works well considering the show often tackles issues of race, politics, and gender in a fairly biting way that walks the line of what some would consider to be inappropriate or offensive. Despite how impressive the latest batch of live-action South Park art is, the show would probably do well to remain in the world of animation.

Maybe showing off an AI-generated fake TV episode during a writers’ strike is a bad idea

It’s a complex time to be in media — but it doesn’t take much to see this is probably a bad time to show off an AI that makes whole TV shows. His approach to media is certainly provocative, if that’s the word, but he is also genuinely a part of the creative community, with a Peabody for the company’s work on Lucy and the Wolves in the Walls. Which is part of what makes this whole situation so perplexing. If you asked around the many people participating in or abiding by the strike (this includes me, incidentally, outside my work as a reporter) what they thought would help their cause, I’m confident that somewhere between zero and none would say “a generative AI that produces entire TV episodes.” Yet that is exactly what Fable decided to pursue and publicize.

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AI tool creates South Park episodes with user in starring role

Episodes can feature a character based on user’s own looks and voice — but tool will not be released to public The potentially transformative role of generative AI across TV and film has been a key concern among writers and actors participating in the Hollywood strike. Fran Drescher, the president of the SAG-AFTRA union, said when announcing the strike last month: “This is a moment of history … We are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines.”

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