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by xivzgrev 1067 days ago
Wow that’s actually better than I expected. The Seinfeld show was awkward and clearly AI.

The scene with the pig was actually funny - the AI only tells racist jokes because it’s trained on the internet.

Assuming AI came up with that, that’s amazing

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What's amazing to me is that without reading (watching?) too much into it, and me not being a seasoned South Park viewer, this could easily pass as a real episode.
> this could easily pass as a real episode.

Hard disagree. The animation, pacing, sound, everything is of considerable lower quality. You can watch full episodes on their website to compare.

https://www.southparkstudios.com/seasons/south-park

Skimming the video, 100% of the dialog was plodding, tedious, unfunny and predictable. I don't know South Park very well but I know snappy dialog is somewhat needed. Just as much, endless vacuous paragraphs on the potential and dangers of AI seems unlikely to be what sustains interest in show.
They actually had an episode about "the dangers of AI" recently (the boys used ChatGPT to avoid having to text with their needy girlfriends), it was VASTLY better than this fan made one.

https://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/8byci4/south-park-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrg1SJhL_Q

Having played with ChatGPT a lot to generate scripts, this episode is as boring and formulaic as every other script it generates. Cartman uses the word "baby" at the end of a sentence, as an example, which is wildly out of character for him.
This is curated/guided, while the Seinfield stuff was not.