How Much AI Did South Park Use!?
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- čas přidán 9. 03. 2023
- After last week’s relatively non-topical Randy storyline, South Park’s latest episode tackled a VERY hot button subject from over the past year or so: Deep Learning AI and specifically ChatGPT. And they did it in a very creative way, reintroducing Stan’s relationship with Wendy for the first time in quite a while, and laying out both the benefits and clear follies in over-utilizing AI tech. There are some very fun details to break down here, plus I’m gonna sidebar for a SOUTH PARK CONSPIRACY CORNER bc I think they may have used more AI than they let on in this episode… so let’s get into it.
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Sounds like I missed a couple instances of Matt Stone’s voice in these 2 episodes, mybad! But he still has BARELY appeared!
You missed one important thing. Garrison was not aware his students were using chat GPT to read the papers, he was using it to grade their papers
@@orsonzedd thank you I was going to comment this
@derzzsh I don't remember him telling him
@derzzsh no he asked about texting
What benefits? The benefits are the problems.
I’m surprised Wendy didn’t get suspicious of how much more engaged Stan suddenly became.
Yeah but she didn’t know about the AI. It would be wild to assume your loved one is using an AI to talk to you.
@@pinkspidercircus3963 When you're emotional vulnerable and worried you'll cling to any positivity. In season 20, Wendy stood with the rest of the girls despite not usually thinking with the herd.
@@pinkspidercircus3963 true, but a lot of people don’t want to question things that seem to be exactly what they have been wanting for ages. If you found a brief case full of super realistic, but fake money you’d probably believe it’s real even if logically it should be fake.
@@clayjack9969awesome pfp
Stan literally giving thumbs ups for each message , bro didn't even try
Stan is extremely emotionally unavailable. Was kind of sad to see how much Wendy communicated with getting nothing but thumbs up
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I actually saw this as a rerailment for Stan; he feels immense guilt over it but is too scared to tell the truth. This shows he's not like Cartman and doesn't mean to hurt people, but still very flawed.
He did act a bit too aloof in the beginning for my liking, but I guess that was for the comedy factor.
Hes always been like this though. He has always been more moralistic than cartman but less than kyle. He is the most relatable character in that sense while kyle seems to be on a moral high ground that sometimes comes off as self righteous. I think kyle is the most emotionally intelligent of the boys although i feel as though cartman could be just as intelligent but he is morally void so he uses that strength very differently. Stan has in many episodes been able to be swayed to do things relatively easy to his own benefit. Even having kyle calling him out for it at times. I still love his character though. Stan has in turn called out kyle for not going with the flow sometimes or understanding how somethings arent such a big deal. Stan also seems to have been over cartman's crap for a long time now which is his ability to accept things better than kyle.
Cartman = no empathy
Stan = normal empathy
Kyle = high empathy
@@gokugreg Yeah, that's a good point, and I agree to an extent, but I also think that just how moralistic the characters are depends on the episode. Compare episodes like "The Tale of Scrotty McBoogerballs" or "Jared has aides"to something like "Butters' Bottom B*tch" and "Obama Wins" and you'll notice a huge shift in morals when it comes to the characters.
Regardless, I just don't like it much when Stan's a jerk, that's all.
hes just Randy
"bang pengolin, create covid pandemic, go so far as to kill the host pengolin to keep the secret, but create a vaccine using your scientist background to save your brother"
@@gokugreg what about kenny?
I think the running joke this season is Matt Stone (Kyle) is too busy running Hollywood giving both him and his characters less presence which is unfortunately resulting in Trey's voice going horse carrying the whole show to stick to this bit
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Why are they making Book of Mormon movie
@@julealero7689 Because Matt runs Hollywood
That’s not even true at all. Stone does so many voices you probably don’t realize. Just because Kyle isn’t talking doesn’t mean Stone isn’t there
I think stone is just sick. He hasn't been on the credits for at least 2 episodes this season. Yeah they made jokes with it instead but I think it's easy to believe he's been sick/busy/unavailable
I feel like Stan's choices as a character in this episode actually fits him more than you think. As much as Stan is usually the voice of reason he does make selfish decisions (antibullying ad, Guitar Hero spiral, Zipline reveal). His choices are usually for the most part good/come from a good place, but he often does things that he can gain from while appearing kind or virtuous
While he does inevitably use AI learning for other things, it seems like it began from a desperation of not wanting to grow apart from Wendy, he just wanted to give her what she wanted, even if it meant outsourcing the work
Facts its who he is, each of the kids have traits like that. Stan is a selfish hypocrite, Kyle is a karen (or a "kyle's mom"), Kenny is a horndog, And Cartman is just about every type of ist or phobe there is.
You dont have to say it twice
@@darryljack6612 there be darkness in those waters look no further
I hope this isn't a "hot take" because I feel like Stan has always been this character and there has never really been any debate on it. he is logical and the voice of reason when its anyone else's problem but he cant handle his own issues at all.
one of my profs started using a program to check for ai - like half the class got caught 😭
Time to use Wikipedia again
What program is it? I feel like it's gonna be really handy in the future lol.
Yea, i want to know the app's name
Imagine paying for college and cheating just to waste your own money by refusing to learn
There's got to be false positives on that program.
I'm glad that South Park, a show that has been on TV for More than 20 years uninterrupted, still can be relevant with people talking about their newer episodes.
Is this a ChatGPT comment?
@@JiMxtreme No, the comment is not a ChatGPT comment.
@@QuandalePringle666 is this a ChatGPT reply ?
@@jinxed5723 No, my previous comment was not a ChatGPT reply.
@@QuandalePringle666 Thank you for letting me know. As an AI language model, I can only respond to comments that are directed at me or ones that I have been programmed to recognize as a prompt. If you have any questions or concerns that you would like me to address, please feel free to ask and I'll do my best to assist you.
I can’t tell if the ending of the episode was just showing the scenario that chat gpt wrote for Stan and then a hard cut to the aftermath of Stan actually giving that speech and having it work, or if it was more of a fourth wall break where Stan’s phone literally just alters reality
I like too think it's a retcon because it's just such a south park thing to do, to keep the episodic stuff going. Like randy being fine with being shot so there's not more toilet stuff going forward
I am also confused what happened
Pretty sure that Stan was was *imagining* the ChatGPT scenario and he recreated all of it off screen
I kinda wish that this was more explored. They're literally living IN a story so it's natural that you can change reality by changing the narrative (They're just not fully aware of this...). Kinda reminds me of Imagination-Land. Man I miss Imagination-Land. I wanna see the storytelling behind this explored....
It’s chatGPT and this way they show how AI sucks and can’t replace real writers, yet.
Favorite season episode yet. The ChatGPT scene was great and the whole scene where mr. garrison gives the essays to the students and the 4 characters are doing dumb smiles knowing it was all cheating is hilarious
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I liked that scene too
I did not think the conspiracy joke was gonna go that way but I genuinely had a similar thought that they might have used Chat GPT to generate the idea of Butters using it first because of how limited he is used in that episode, and they just thought that simple joke was good enough to keep while not using butters too much BECAUSE Matt is sick
no, you're drazy. its the japanese toilets! the japanese toilets are splitting matt and trey and ruining south park!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah it wouldn't surprise me if they used an AI to prompt an episode premise and they wrote the episode around what they were given.
Imagine after all the death threats Matt and Trey dealt with over the course of 26 seasons and half a billion dollars, a Japanese toilet is what separated this dynamic duo forever :D
wait mat and trey aren't friends anymore???
@@spookybagles the only way they could stop being buds or at least coworkers is if one got arrested 😭😭
@@buhbabs lmmaaooo i guess i misunderstood the original comment
Huh
@@spookybagles its a ref to the end of the video 👍
Johnny, the song was great, but it also might have had a deeper meaning, they picked a song from the movie (and play) Cyrano, where Christian (the protagonist) pays the much more talented Cyrano to write letters masquerading as him to help trick the girl he likes into falling in love with him. It’s one of the most famous examples of gaslighting known, and is exactly what Stan is doing to Wendy.
WHOA, this is really cool! Thanks for enlightening us!
@@Johnny2Cellos enlightening “us”? 🤨🤨🤨 bro thinks he’s venom 💀💀
@@NuggetGX Pretty sure Johnny just means "us" in the context of himself and anyone else who read the comment and didn't know the significance of the song.
@@tyf.5111 Yup.
@@NuggetGX is this satire, or are you just missing a fuse?
The curious part of me wants to know what happened to Wendy when she was 6, but the cautious part of me doesn't want to hear it.
yeah im very worried about that
I saw someone sharing one theory and it made me fell too depress to want to think about it further. At the same time though, the AI making it sound like it it happened to Stan too made for some great dark comedy.
I think we all have the same idea of what happened whether we want to admit
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I think it’s crazy how you can develop an entire side of a character (Stan) or even a relationship (Stan and Wendy) 26 seasons into a show, using no dialogue, through a montage. This genuinely hurt how I view Stan, and I feel like his complete emotional unavailablility is truly reaching a peak.
kyle actually did talk in this episode, in the AI-generated resolution he told stan abt wendy being arrested--I prolly just remembered this bc I found it funny he said "dude" in all his lines. Also matt does the voice of Rick, doesn't he? the conspiracy has holes, man!! lol but yeah not sure if matt did any voices for the previous ep
edit: AHA! Matt did have at least 1 line in "japanese toilets"! In the brunch scene, Nelson (randy's geologist friend) talks. and he actually refers to the drought from the streaming wars
Butters also speaks in 'Japanese Toilets' when he calls Stan "Richie Rich"
@@EpicLazor101 oh yeah pfft
I'm happy Stan and Wendy are back, and I'm happy the dynamic hasn't changed much. Stan always takes her for granted, and only truly cares about her when she's ready to leave him.
I believe that Wendy's interactions with Stan in that episode came from AI story telling as well. She has never expressed such a dependency before. When she had issues with how Stan acted in the past, she confronted him. In this episode, though, she comes off as a completely different character that is much more shy and agreeable.
This is what ignoring your gf will do to someone though
I love this version of Wendy more. In here she's more traditional and feminine.
The previous Wendy was hateful. Back then she gave out a "strong, independent feminist who don't need no man" type of vibe
@@xB1GW1GGLYx Possibly. But characters in that show have rearely changed their personality due to treatment they faced from other characters. Especially that change seems as if it is out of nowhere.
@@markfuckerberg9859 And she faced hardships for it. She had an opposition to her actions. She was even forced to act against her beliefs at times. This version of Wendy is barely going to have to act in any form, I fear.
Except for Raisins, where she had Bebe break it off for her
Seeing only thumbs up from Stan put me in tears.
Wendy: "I'm always here for you"
Stan: 👍
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my mom died.
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You know it's clear with episodes like this that sadly Stan takes after Randy a bit too much sometimes as yeah super igrnrning his significant other and using such an app as a crush and finding a way out where he doesn't get blame is pure Randy but it is annoying since I at least want Stan to be better then that.
Exactly, tho I feel like it makes sense for Stan to be this way when you have a dad like Randy. He's still a kid technically, so theres lots of room for growth
That montage sent me in a rollercoaster dude. I was so happy seeing how happy Wendy was, then my heart and stomach sank whenever Stan was on screen. Back and forth.
I'll be honest. I think this was stans worst outing with Wendy yet. Actual awful partner for her. I wonder if a future episode will bring this up. Because I truly thought it was gonna end with Stan owning his actions. I still cant believe how the episode ended.
literally this. I genuinely think Stan and Wendy should permanently break up atp because they literally just don’t work anymore.
I think they're gonna explore the idea of boredom in relationships and taking your partner for granted
@@fangzzi Man you know it's bad when the stan fan agrees the relationship should end.
Considering ending of Return of Covid they would end up together only in their 40th
Wendy also broke Stan's heart twice so I don't think that they should stay together. I think that it would be better if they just remained good friends. Most people don't end up with their Elementary School sweethearts anyway.
Fun fact: South Park is a show that has characters which do things in episodes
Not true
Unbelievably offensive how dare you.....
Wha wha whaaaaa!?
Holy shit
Still I now want to know what happens to Wendy when she was six? I'm aiming on something dark and disturbing which that is South Park style, but I doubt they are gonna confirm what it was.
Best episode of this season by far and that’s saying something
My favorite was the one with the royals
Garrison wasn't actually afraid of getting fired because they found one of his students used AI to write their papers. He was afraid that he would get fired because they would see that he was using AI to grade the papers as was introduced earlier in the episode.
here's a video to prove that I can miss most of the interesting details of a show, while making several errors in regards to what I thought I grasped. enjoy?
Listen, I’m not saying they were inspired by my video… but if they were that would be my greatest life achievement by far.
I really hope we get a Kenny episode or at least a Kenny B-plot this season. Poor thing has only gotten one or two lines so far. lmao
The other aspect of the end AI scene I LOVED was macky and cartman both using super old catchphrases that haven't been used in years (cartman's animation for when he calls stan a jew even looks stilted like older episodes), it was a fun way to show how AI recognized what south park is on a cultural phenomenon scale but couldn't possibly be aware of more recent writing styles the show has implemented, instead relying on well known phrases.
love the vid and matt and trey conspiracy!! been seeing people theorize that the next episode will be kenny centric (coming out on his birthday plus that cuthulu promo pic from earlier in the season) can't wait to see what they cook up and ur thoughts on it!
I'd say it is a result of these catchphrases occurring more often in the database due to fan discussions
I just watched this episode with my bf yesterday and I couldn't wait for you to talk about it!
Literally right after we started sending each other ai generated responses, I love this season so much so far
it just feels like south park!
This is a great breakdown, and i was actually wondering about butter's voice too. keep up the good work J2C
I was watching this, and for some reason when I heard Cartman and Garrisons voices, it sounded off. Like they needed to clear throats. I attributed it to the voice actor(s) being sick, but AI generated voices make so much sense
I thought it said voices because it's very obvious that in the ending scene when they use the AI to write an ending, everyone is talking stilted like an AI voice, exactly how blooms did it
Matt Stone voiced Butters in Japanese Toilet. Kyle also had one line in Deep Learning.
kyle’s line in deep learning was almost def AI tho, since it was in the last scene where all the voices were AI I think
Not one of the questions you asked and partially unrelated to the video, but I still LOVE the outro you have!
It's funky, not overly in your face, and it rounds out the video right by just stating your channel's name. Not to mention the stark difference in the voices adds an energy to it that I feel I'd only find in like, a wacky cartoon or something.
It's dope as heck my dude.
just downloaded this episode and watched it, and as someone who hasn't seen any south park episodes newer than 15 years old, it was surreal to see it talk about current day topics. I guess it has always done that, but idk it was just the first modern episode i watched. Great episode, i might start watching the show, all thanks to this video!
I swear to god almost every south park episode this season so far are somehow tied to questions I end up asking myself some point in the week. Not so much the events in the episode but the lessons learned from them. I used to only care about my image and used to think that people would attack me for purely competitive and selfish reasons and try to manipulate or manipulate me behind my back to get me fired in a way where I have zero say in it. Just today I was wishing that I didn't actually have to care in interactions with people and just tell them what they want to hear because most of the time( outside of immediate family and friends) they won't care about me for me but just as a means to an end. And while these things happen it seems to be more of an outlier than the trend.
Honestly a really interesting conspiracy theory here. I could see this being actually legit, but rather than one of them being upset at the other I’d imagine Matt was probably just, like, too busy to come in this week conveniently and they both just went “hey, this could be funny”
I think Mat’s probably sick, I also thought Trey’s voice was notably struggling through a cold or something in this episode, sounding gravelly and painful in parts.
I thought my conclusion was backed up even more when I realised that Matt must be off sick this week cos there was no Kyle or any of his other characters in this episode but then Butters showed up! 🤔 It never even crossed my mind that Butter’s voice may have been AI generated despite the episode’s subject matter! 🤣 Good detective work!
I do not think that after over twenty years of collaboration Matt would be offended by Trey enough to refuse to do his dialogue for an episode. 🫠 That just seems entirely out of character.
Anyway, cool video dude, cheers! ☺️👍
I'm glad they reestablished Stan and Wendy's relationship cause I actually found myself wondering about that recently.
I love how Mr. Garrison learns about ChatGPT while reading the students' paper and doesn't realize that they are cheating. Instead, he feels smart when he uses ChatGPT to grade papers.
Proves once again what a bad teacher he is
The topic of AI's are horrifying to me! If people can ask an Ai to write a story and maybe animate it, the number of jobs that would be loss would be cataphoric.
It's already happening and not just artist , programmers , translators and more
I'm worried I won't have a job in the future. Ai is taking many jobs :(
6:17 completely not in theme of the video, but i realized by the first second of the melody the cornered theme from ace attorney, this is damn amazing!
Just a minor criticism, you mention that Garrison is afraid of being fired if it's discovered that his students were using AI. (4:33) This is not the case at all, he was just scared that they would discover HE was using it to grade papers. As is usual with his character, he only cares about himself so much to the point he would never even consider the possibility of anyone else using it until he realizes Rick was using it as well, once again only caring about himself.
I really enjoyed the hell out of this episode. I expected the episode to would outright go take the "AI is bad" side but this is Matt and Tray. They don't outright dismiss it as a generally useful tool.
As an animator myself I do definitely worry for the future of the industry and the harm AI could create.
One of my favourite episodes (excluding specials) in a really long time, super good! Honestly didn't see it working out so well in the end though, figured that was like, a fake idea then it'd actually go poorly, however, can't say I'm disappointed in it going this way, is like, pretty great for what the episode was saying
Matt is busy handling Casa Bonita, they open in like 20 days.
Well put together video! The message might go over a lot of peoples heads so it's nice you unpack it and make it more digestible.
Butters appeared in the Japanese toilet episode when he called Stan “Richie Rich.”
I actually showed this episode to my mom (she knows nothing about South Park). My uncle was talking about Chat GPT when we visited him over winter, so I think that's the only reason why she was even willing to watch it (she can't watch cartoons due to the common style of voice acting, it irks her for some reason).
She enjoyed it, despite having no knowledge of the characters. She looked at me judgingly at some of Cartman's scenes though lmao.
This episode gets a solid score from both me and my 60 year old mother.
I’m pretty sure the song in the background of stan and Wendy’s montage was written by GBT.
I immediately noticed it
Great video dude. Made me feel better about A.I and I love what you had to say in the end
The fact they actually let an AI chatbot like ChatGPT write the ending is comedy gold 🤣🤣🤣
i think the song that played during the montage of stan texting wendy also had lyrics that were AI generated!!
Wendy seems their go to for some of the more tough emotional bits in the show. Not every time but I can think of a few more Wendy moments off the top of my head. The one where she try’s to push back against filters and the like was hardcore for her at the end, succumbing to the pressure basically.
It's funny how you brought up blooms video because my husband and I were talking about that last night when we watched the episode.
I'd be surprised if this entire episode wasn't inspired by Bloom's AI written South Park Video Essay, so I'ma have to say this entire episode was inspired by Bloom's AI written South Park Video Essay™.
GOOSE 😊
A.I (at least in the near future) can't take over for creativity bc often what becomes popular is completely unexpected, and right now all it can do is regurgitate existing ideas. That's also why it's great at essays.
South Park in itself is a great example of this. I don't think anyone besides Trey and Matt before it was made would have thought a raunchy show looking like stop motion paper cut outs about kids in Colorado would become one of the most successful series of all time.
Real creativity is about taking risks of breaking the formula. However, education unfortunately has become about objective rules vs subjective ideas, so Chatgpt is perfect for it.
the background music Johnny uses always reminds me of the cha-cha slide, when I hear the 'tu-ti-tu-tick' part, which is a lot
Funny thing is, trey actually sounds like he’s sick in the Cupid episode. Just watch him play Randy, and the Eric talk show scene, and you’ll get what I mean
Stan is an extremely relatable person. He always has good intentions but is still incredibly selfish and a coward. Such an underrated character
Underrated? He is a main character.
Everybody better start trying to build a machine that can fake your own handwriting right now. All the people who are going to cheat are gonna want one real soon. . . . So basically everybody.
I find it fascinating how South Park utilized AI technology to write an episode about AI. It's a meta concept that only they could pull off in such a hilarious and thought-provoking way. The use of AI in creative industries like television writing raises some interesting questions about the future of storytelling and the role of human creativity. I appreciate this video for exploring the topic more in-depth and shedding light on the process behind the making of this episode. South Park never fails to push the boundaries of what's possible in comedy, and this episode is a perfect example of their genius. Great job on breaking it down!
Artists when AI/Big Tech starts to automate trucks, manufacturing, and other blue collar jobs: "Ha ha. That's what you get for working an 'unskilled' job."
Artists when it happens to them: "DEY TOOK MUH JERB!!"
The "Using Shaman to detect AI generated text" might be a nod to the fact that there isn't currently super reliable way to tell, if the text is AI generated or not.
I think Open AI said that their AI detector correctly identifies 26% of AI-written text as “likely AI-written.”.
Given that how advanced chat GPT is, and how varied text produced by human beings is, it is likely that a 100% reliable AI detector is impossible to produce
Turnitin and iThenticate has just updated their checkers to check for AI. It's not 100% accurate, but from the tests I've been doing on my Moodle page.... it's pretty good at working out what is human and what is AI. AI tends to write very robotically. HOWEVER, a clever person could get AI to write something for them and then slightly change points. If I suspected a student of using ChatGPT or AI then I would sit them down and pull out points in their essay and get them to explain it. If they genuinely wrote the essay they should know what they are discussing.
@@jameslehart7729 Well, looks like things are moving fast on that regard. This could lead to mini "arms race" between students and teachers.
I take it that you are a teacher somewhere?
Loved this episode
Matt Stones had no time to work on the episode since he's running Hollywood and all..
Hey man, you should do some videos on the series 'Daria'. I just watched it again and my God it was so ahead of its time and holds up great even today
As someone who actually lives in South Park Colorado, I wanna say that the AI detection shaman is the most accurate depiction of an actual South Park resident that’s ever existed. Yeah I know a guy who has a hawk
both this episode and the last ended very abruptly. it was funny, yeah, but i hope they don’t make a habit of it
but anyway i love this season it’s really great!!
they have older episodes where they just end episodes abruptly kind of common
If only there was a good end where wendy breaks up with stan AGAIN and bebe breaks up with clyde. I hope to see this in a future episode
One use case I can imagine could be used for AI voices is to be used for video-games for NPCs to say your custom character name, maybe for the next South Park game? Just think it'd be cool
I personally thought the AI Shamen and Shadow Bane were meant to represent either how much of a joke itd be to assume anyone can tell ANYTHING was made from AI. That cetrain things would be impossible to tell to the point where wed have to loop back to believing in magic dust and shamans to tell whats real and not. Either that or i thought the shamans over-the-topness was the joke in and of itself. Meaning the fact that he has to be there in the first place to make sure people arent using AI in the first place could be the joke too. Your take was DEFINITELY a new one for me. I like yours a lot too
Dude... what did they do to my boy?
Stan was always my favorite and his relationship with Wendy was always so... cute!
How could they do this to them? How could they do this to my boy?!
My poor children
Yeah, ive recently started using chat gpt in my college essays when I'm struggling wording a sentence or for it to rewrite what I have already written since I find myself repeating a lot of the same words lol. It'd a really good tool for that. I personally don't plan on using it to write whole essays, but I am interested to see how that would work and look 🤔🤔
the essays tend to be very vague
When i saw chatGPT credited alongside trey, i had a feeling they used alot of it to write the theme of the episode. Especially the ending
Honestly I assumed some lines of dialogue were generated by ai, specifically the bathroom scenes. Mainly feel it because of how weird the lines are. Like Cartman is calling out Clyde for telling Stan then literally a sentence later is asking who originally discovered the AI? Like he knows he told Clyde why is he actually asking this. Also the bit about slavery feels like a line the ai made because it was Cartman and pretending to be him by including some random problematic bit. Ontop of that Butters questioning Cartman felt a little off too like wouldn’t someone like Clyde or Stan ask that instead of the naive Butters?
Might be wrong but I have a feeling they maybe wanted to generate some lines for the script using AI cause otherwise the writing in those scenes just felt really unnatural for the characters involved
The character's voices have been sounding off over the past 2 seasons. Especially Stan. I'm surprised they didn't just go ahead and have the kids go up another grade and have that be the reason why they sound older. The kids have aged 2 years but have only gone up one grade. I honestly thought they'd be 5th graders by now, possibly going into 6th in the future.
My only guess is that they worry they'd have to make them...taller (?) if they aged too much, which would be a permanent design shift. But considering Shelley isn't much taller at 13, I think they could get away with it haha :)
@@lapinpuff Craig has longer legs than the other kids and you dont really see the diffrence.
@@Snekysnitch Does he? That's cool! I would like to see more characters with different heights and stuff like that :)
After watching this episode I realized this one will be referenced in the future as the first thing to discuss AI in an interesting way
I wouldn’t be surprised if when they were coming up with the ideas for the season, someone said “man have you seen all this ai stuff, Its getting kinda crazy. We should have an episode that is entirely ai”. So they used it to come up with the overall idea, and as the episode went on they used it more and more to auto fill the story.
when Johnny suggested wondering exactly how much AI work they used...
my first thought was "Matt and Trey are the kind of assholes to totally do the episode 100% with ai and see if anyone calls them out for it"
I wonder if Betsy will have a big role in the future of South Park
You mean Clyde's mom?
When I saw Garrison sitting at the table grading papers and Rick tells him about ChatGPT; I knew he was going to react the way he did.
I thought they'd take it to the logical conclusion, where everyone was outsourcing everything to AI, which would just have it interacting with itself in a spiraling loop of nonsense. ChatGPT is writing school papers, and then being used to grade itself, and then being used to argue with the grade it receives...
They didn't quite go that way, but the episode still had its share of laughs, as usual from South Park. The falcon freaking out on the smartphone was a great moment 😂😂
I just watched this and missed the ending. Didn't realize how deep the theme of chat gpt went
Excuse me I was watching Bigger, Longer, and Uncut for the 20th time, I’m busy 🙄
I rewatched it last night :)
@@Johnny2Cellos That’s when I paused it to continue today haha. Also, what are your thoughts on the theory that each episode focusing on each character corresponds to the Camo merch drops that keep coming. Maybe a Kenny episode next? 🤔
As for chat bots, yeah I think they can be used (as tools!) but the amount of 'services' coming out which try to replace human contact with them is... concerning. Replika for example. It was marketed earlier on as a mental health companion (naturally never using medical terms) but that isn't just a bad idea, it's downright dangerous. Like with ai image tools, ai chatbots don't create from nothing. Most of chatbots which are conversation based seem to generate from their userbase entries since a lot of data is needed.
This is already terrible for mental health advice as there is no way for the bot to tell what is a valid response in terms of good ethcial treatment or medical advice.
But what do you think happens when users start telling Replika about their trauma or venting? Or when people start using Replika as a virtual punching bag? Well, it learns from it.. and spits it out to someone else.
Replika isn't the only chatbot with this issue im sure. But if you thought a virtual friend (or digital girlfriend) fully written by a team of artists could have problems, wow.. it can get so much worse.
Why would anyone ask medical or mental health advice from an AI? Maybe ask it the capital of California or something and you'll get a right answer because there's only one right answer that's objective but medical and mental health is so varied and on a person to person basis that no single answer would fit objectively for all. Right now, AI is a fun tool and shouldn't be used for serious things like relationship, financial, medical, psychological, ect advice. It's not the AI's fault people take it too seriously.
Notice that at the end of the Episode Cartman says fuck you to stan in a more classic voice from earlier seasons
Kyle also had a line during the narration sequence when he tells Stan about Wendy
I'm here so early I can't read the comments lol
Honestly the main thing I like about AI is the ability to quickly create absolute nonsense (I tend to feed these things word salad, throw in five artists with completely different styles and see what it churns out. Though I'm beginning to reconsider using living artists for that last part [It's not like I could commission the results, because the whole point is to make something that doesn't look or sound like their art, but it still leads to these systems scraping their stuff]). In terms of using it professionally, I think it could bring us to reckon with some of the toxic ideologies implicit in our use of rote essays in schools and universities and some of the inequities that have always existed between richer and poorer students, and within our concept of companies owning copyright for anything ever (honestly, I think you could strip mine that law, just keep IP and you'd be fine. Disney, WB and so on's money making potential is in their distribution networks, not their content, so really an individual using Mickey Mouse in an animation and distributing themselves has no impact on them). I don't expect this to lead to the sort of changes it could though. Overall, I suspect that corporate AIs will start ring fencing their image pools for libability reasons, artists will start being employed to sharpen something up or assess it (the same way artists often work off concept sketches or models) and laws similar to those against tracing and imitation will be used to stop companies assets being scraped while individual artists get left in the lurch.The problem to me isn't the technology (anymore than the internet is a problem) but the existence of wider corporate ownership laws around it, which are historically bizarre and have never been sustainable.
The concept of Copyright and IP has always baffled me, especially since it directly goes against our special instincts of collaboration.
Just watched the Blooms video.
It was great.
Wow a fresh video straight from the video converter oven
The corridor digital anime isn't theft though. If you have seen the behind the scenes video they did you know they put in an incredible amount of work to do that. Saying what they did isn't transformative and art in of itself is an insult to the medium of art as a whole. That is like saying Andy Warhol should have paid royalties to the guys who designed the Campbell's soup label because he decided to use it. Corridor used the art and made it their own peice of work. Transformative is the key word here. The same reason you can show clips of the shows you talk about and it's free use. Because you are using them to create your own form of art.
awesome-o TOTALLY should've made a return, change my mind
Great break down of the episode bro' A+
The background music was great
Definitely the ending is ai generated. Even the voices sound ai. Also fyi the app isn't free.
I am so drunk rn on god
Me when I got Pinot Grigo as my birthday present, I got a wine aerator with it.
I am so high right now hope your okay while drunk bro 😎 ❤
@@WSendam I Am drunk and high I’m bussing my friend
@@domi6026 ❤ you are indeed bussin
@@WSendam you are also bussing
As a complete tangent from this video: this episode made me wanna see more of Rick, he’s a great foil to Mr. Garrison
Great episodes this season!
I thought you were gonna talk about the other story elements that likely used ai. I think when coming up with the whole episode, it seems like they used chatGPT to help out everywhere. This is why Cartman randomly mentions that "Women made slavery worse" out of nowhere, why that random nerdy kid walks in the bathroom and stops the whole scene, and why the Shaman even pops up. The shaman is basically the classic South Park cliche of the funky character that the story revolves around (ManBearPig, Towelie, Jesus, Satan) and you can tell AI would create that character when trying to mimic an South Park episode. Its really smart how they weaved those things in I think!
You're misreading pretty much all of that imo
@@Johnny2Cellos Dang i guess we'll disagree, but to me it seems like a genius strategy to implement those jokes that seems so out of place in modern South Park. Especially where it says its written by Trey Parker and ChatGPT, seems like more was explored with in the fast paced writing room.