'South Park' Creators Land $20 Million In Funding For Their Deepfake VFX Studio (variety.com) 57
The creators of "South Park" have secured a $20 million investment for their AI entertainment startup Deep Voodoo. Variety reports: The funding was led by Connect Ventures, an investment partnership between CAA and venture-capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA). It's the first outside capital raised by Deep Voodoo, which previously was funded entirely by Parker and Stone's independent entertainment company, Park County. Stone and Parker plan to use the new funding to "accelerate Deep Voodoo's development of its leading deepfake technology, cost-effective visual effects services and original synthetic media projects," according to the announcement.
Stone and Parker's Deep Voodoo began building their proprietary deepfake technology in early 2020, and the duo assembled a team of artists for a feature film about Donald Trump they had developed. In October of that year, they released "Sassy Justice," a 14-minute comedy short featuring a deepfaked Trump (voiced by Peter Serafinowicz), which went viral. But they suspended the movie project due to the COVID pandemic, and pivoted Deep Voodoo to be a provider of deepfake tools to the industry. With Connect Ventures' investment, Deep Voodoo has begun offering its "unrivaled face-swapping visual effects" to artists, producers and creators across the industry, per the announcement.
Stone and Parker's Deep Voodoo began building their proprietary deepfake technology in early 2020, and the duo assembled a team of artists for a feature film about Donald Trump they had developed. In October of that year, they released "Sassy Justice," a 14-minute comedy short featuring a deepfaked Trump (voiced by Peter Serafinowicz), which went viral. But they suspended the movie project due to the COVID pandemic, and pivoted Deep Voodoo to be a provider of deepfake tools to the industry. With Connect Ventures' investment, Deep Voodoo has begun offering its "unrivaled face-swapping visual effects" to artists, producers and creators across the industry, per the announcement.
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Fuck South Park Forever. (Score:1, Troll)
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Or maybe we didn't. Lighten up.
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No, this show single-handedly nullified all of science with a single joke. And you fucking imbeciles bought it. Fuck you.
The mistake was using a preachy partisan politician as the spokesperson for what should have never been a partisan issue.
Climate change was not always partisan. During the 2008 primary, every Republican candidate but one (Fred Thompson) agreed that climate was a real problem. Can you imagine that happening today?
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It wouldn't have mattered who delivered the message. They would have been vilified and a whole mythos developed around them.
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It wouldn't have mattered who delivered the message. They would have been vilified and a whole mythos developed around them.
Except that's not what happened. Before Al Gore's film, there was a bi-partisan consensus that it was a real problem.
Once Al Gore became the poster child of climate change, no Republican could touch the issue and survive.
It didn't help that Al Gore's film contained many exaggerations and falsehoods.
Democrats often care less about winning on policy than feeling smug about losing. So as the ice caps melt and crops wither, they will grin with satisfaction and say, "See, we told you so."
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Before Al Gore's film, there was a bi-partisan consensus that it was a real problem.
What planet was this on? Because it certainly never happened on this one.
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What planet was this on? Because it certainly never happened on this one.
GOP candidates debate climate change [go.com]
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They are specifically talking about McCain as an outlier because he will even discuss the subject.
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They are specifically talking about McCain as an outlier because he will even discuss the subject.
No they aren't. Fred Thompson was the outlier as the only participant that didn't agree that it was a real problem. He didn't say it wasn't, he just wasn't willing to say it was, and he was not given an opportunity to elaborate.
Giuliani: "I agree with John. Climate change is real. It's happening. I believe human beings are contributing to it."
Romney: "As we get ourselves off of foreign oil, we also dramatically reduce our CO2 emissions,"
Huckabee: the federal government should take the lead in using alternat
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"The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them."
-Mark Twain
Also, Gore's doc wasn't wrong and didn't have lies the faux fact checks on the other hand did; I saw those as well and it was no surprise given how Tobacco was handled. If alive in the 90s, you probably were still smoking like it wasn't proven dangerous yet.
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Parent must be getting history from Faux News and using your father's account.
Having payed attention since the early 90s I not only lived during it, I was informed.
Al Gore was THE major force in government pushing both sides to action before 2000! Cap & Trade was 90s and it died due to a hugely effective big coal/oil campaign and that targeted primarily Republicans who've been owned ever since and too cowardly to do anything (and Trump should have proved to you just how cowardly all but 3 are.) Now a fe
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FYI, I saw a PowerPoint long ago by a marketing man (PR) on how to get Australians to become idiots like the Americans. It claimed they had made climate change into part of the conservative identity over in America and it would work there as well. Well, obviously it worked as the gullible Australians allowed their self identity to be redefined and amid the earliest disasters a huge part of their country shifted away from reality.
Naturally, the same PR plans are being deployed. They deny everything; then fa
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I'm pretty fucking liberal and believe in climate change, but I've hated Al Gore since the 80's when he and Tipper tried to ban the "devil's" music.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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Oh noes! Someone did a politick I didn't like. He most evidently aligns himself with the doctrines of Benito Mussolini!
Well... yes. That's how politics works. Do you voluntarily surround yourself happily with people of opposing viewpoints you find dangerous and destructive? That may make you a masochist.
TV shows are a form of entertainment. If they engage in politics we don't agree with they cease entertaining us and the viewers (if they so happen to be aligned against them) say they entire show and creators can go die in a fire.
That's how politics and entertainment works. And don't pretend you're not the same.
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It's ok, dear friend. We all suffered great losses at the hands of Manbearpig. My wife, as well as our toy poodle, will never be the same after what he did. Every day I wake up in fear knowing that Manbearpig still walks this earth. Fear not however, Elon Musk is working on some robots to stop him, so keep buying those Teslas and hope for the best.
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Yeah its fucking hilarious.
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Yes we did. These two have contributed to the fall of human civilisation. We will cook. Actually cook.
Yeah its fucking hilarious.
It's
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You're just mad because they make fun of Mormons. Go back to molesting some little boy.
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We evolved to walk (upright) the same way flying squirrels evolved to fly.
It's clumsy and utilitarian. Worse than squirrels, it breaks movement rather than adds something, beyond carrying stuff.
We moved just fine, and much faster, before then.
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Musk hate is such a curious thing. The tail is wagging the dog. Politics informs people a hero must be a villain. Therefore he is.
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He always was a bit of an asshole. He got lucky by selling companies. He didn’t start Paypal or even Tesla for that matter. He’s mister conservative now that Tesla subsidies ended. We didn’t hear a peep while he was taking all those tax payer funded checks. Why would Elon support socialist wealth redistribution?
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Why would anyone?
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That is, indeed, a better option. Unfortunately, for an individual to adopt it (as I have) imposes an rather high cost on that individual an those who want to interact with that individual. This isn't going to happen on a significant enough scale to make much difference.
(FWIW, I opted out of driving because I considered myself to be an unsafe driver. I tend to get caught up in a chain of thought to the exclusion of what's going on around me. So I opted out before either the insurance company or the morg
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They have since apologized for acting like teenage libertarian edgelords during that time period.
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What was their apology? Was it more than words? Forgiveness of sins depends on genuine repentance, and words must be accompanied by actions demonstrating that repentance.
1.3 billion (Score:2)
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The first rule of being rich is not spending your own money. You spend other peoples.
Oh no! (Score:2)
Good Grief! (Score:2)
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went viral.... (Score:2)
my arse,,,
I had no idea this existed till now....
this is like America saying "world series" - but only one country participating
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I don't get it.
If we're so far "beneath you"...why do you pay so much attention to what's going on over here?
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Not sure I get you....the radicals are mostly in chard NOW in the US....
People who are wanting to fundamentally change what the US has been until recent years and worked so well for us to date.
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And that's a good thing..wait, what? (Score:2)
Well, all that political BS from troll farms trying to direct the conversation aside, now might be the time to invest in this technology, in a context of producing movies. Think Pixar in the early days, but with the ability to resurrect old stars, or keep popular ones eternally young.
Maybe it'll tank. Maybe not. It's the maybe not part that counts.
As someone who really likes "South Park" a lot... (Score:2)
If it puts overpaid actors out of business (Score:1)
Hello students , I will help you to solve your pr (Score:1)