😰 uh oh.  This fake South Park episode is written, animated, directed, voiced, edited all without a single human being. With the Hollywood strike, is #Artificial Intelligence the hero or the villain?

Read more on South Park's AI-generated fake TV episode where Cartman tries to apply deepfake technology to the media industry. here: https://tcrn.ch/3OujyMF

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

Artificial Intelligence

😰 uh oh.  This fake South Park episode is written, animated, directed, voiced, edited all without a single human being. With the Hollywood strike, is #Artificial Intelligence the hero or the villain?  Read more on South Park's AI-generated fake TV episode where Cartman tries to apply deepfake technology to the media industry. here: https://tcrn.ch/3OujyMF

Sam Mendoza

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/dont-put-your-head-in-the-sand-stars-are-quietly-inking-deals-to-license-their-ai-doubles?utm_campaign=Automated+Fallback+R&utm_content=89&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=19&rc=gzsl71

In 2008, while working with Will Smith on the set of a film that never ended up getting made, Remington Scott had an epiphany. The visual effects director was watching Smith stand in a photogrammetry 

‘Don’t Put Your Head in the Sand’: Stars Are Quietly Inking Deals to License Their AI Doubles

Bobby

Anyone see this?  Controversial proposal offering actors one-time payment to grant companies ownership and perpetual use of their AI-scanned likenesses without future consent or compensation - REJECTED

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/actors-strike-sag-artificial-intelligence-hollywood-studios-background-1234788191/

Anyone see this?  Controversial proposal offering actors one-time payment to grant companies ownership and perpetual use of their AI-scanned likenesses without future consent or compensation - REJECTED  https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/actors-strike-sag-artificial-intelligence-hollywood-studios-background-1234788191/

During SAG-AFTRA negotiations, the studios allegedly demanded the ability to use AI on background actors for a day rate, owning their image forever

Striking SAG Actors in Disbelief Over Studios' Dystopian AI Proposal

Cyril

Netflix faces criticism for posting an AI product manager role with high compensation amid ongoing actors' and writers' strikes. The core focus of the Hollywood shutdown revolves around higher pay, increased streaming residuals, and safeguards against AI displacing human workers.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-ai-replace-actors-heres-how-digital-double-tech-works/

Netflix faces criticism for posting an AI product manager role with high compensation amid ongoing actors' and writers' strikes. The core focus of the Hollywood shutdown revolves around higher pay, increased streaming residuals, and safeguards against AI displacing human workers.  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-ai-replace-actors-heres-how-digital-double-tech-works/

Inside the orb, the world is reduced to a sphere of white light and flashes. Outside the orb’s metallic, skeletal frame is darkness. Imagine you are strapped into a chair inside this contraption. A vo

Can AI Replace Actors? Here’s How Digital Double Tech Works

does that make this the best or the worst possible moment to soft-launch an AI that can “write, animate, direct, voice, edit” a whole TV show? — and demonstrate it with a whole fake “South Park” episode?

The ongoing strike of creatives in TV and film, plus the nascent threat of AI-based writing and effects, make it a complicated time to work in show business

Sam Mendoza

A group of likeminded people in Artificial Intelligence are talking about this.