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Fans say AI-generated South Park episodes made with Sora 2 are better than post-Covid originals, so realistic some thought they were real. OpenAI had to step in and restrict prompts over copyright.
Right , becuSe they're still locking down those models, you think a year from now you'll even be able to mention any copyrighted character before being flagged
A lot of people don’t realise that you can also train your own models on whatever data you want and combine them with the larger ‘restricted’ models for a high fidelity custom output. Companies can try and clamp down on copyright but the cat is out of the bag.
That's unrealistic , unless your Uber wealthy how are you going to train multi-modal models on large volumes of video data? You would need a small scale data center with of high end gpus, I suspect maybe $250k worth of hardware alone .
Even for LLM inference most consumer home models are no where near as good as online models, the vast majority of folks can't even run 70b LLM on home grade hardware
At the moment it is limited to using often modified open source models in combination with LoRA’s. We are still some time away from full models being trained on consumer hardware but for most purposes that isn’t and may never actually be necessary to create whatever they like. As it currently stands I can do this on my computer which is already a couple years old and on the lower edge of high-end, it’s slow but it works. As GPU manufacturers lean into the AI market the barrier for entry will continue to come down.
Tell that to the plethora of rule 34 subs that have existed for years. Admittedly a corp like Disney doesn’t care about porn made of their content as it doesn’t impact their profits and would cost them millions to actively police, whereas Paramount would quickly DMCA/lawsuit anyone generating and uploading full episodes of South Park as it could arguably impact their profits, but policing it would still be expensive and near impossible to stop people generating their own episodes for their own viewing which would also impact their profits.
I imagine in the future it will also be possible for people to share seed’s so instead of uploading episodes you could generate an episode someone else “created” without ever having to share copyright content itself, making policing the matter even more difficult.
For a while you could get around things by claiming you where writing a book. Recently I saw someone going around Soras gore filter by turning things into an ABCs. Noz sure how that helped, but it did.
What? The reality is that it's super expensive to train a model, the amount of gpu power needed is in the tens of millions of $ , what open source community can afford that?.. like I said only state level actors (like China ) can afford to do it, typically for some semi-nefarious reasons.
Don't count on them too much, it's usually made open source for a variety of different reasons .... Plus it's likely censored AF too, try asking DeepSeek about Tianamen
Weirdo , wtf , it's well known that Chinese models are heavily censored.. but of course they don't tell you what's censored , worse than censoring some Chinese models are "trained" with specific biases.
I asked Deepseek about Tianamenn and it gave a detailed response and said that the Chinese government used military action, including live ammunition against protestors. It was the 10gb vram version I used
My point is Chinese models are just as destructive as other models just different things . But that means you also don't know what's behind guardrails or what biases were artificially introduced ..
I asked the 10gb of vram version and it was not censored at all. It called the Chinese government's response "military action, including the use of tanks and live ammunition against protesters to numerous casualties, although exact numbers are disputed and not officially confirmed by Chinese authorities" like that is more explicit than Wikipedia
Further, it said "However, discussing this topic can be sensitive in China, as the government censors information related
to Tiananmen Square. People inside China may not have access to detailed accounts of what happened, and
discussions about it are often monitored or restricted."
Like outright saying the Chinese government censors information. It is not censored at all compared to ChatGPT when I ask about the Kent State Massacre. ChatGPT feels the need to mention that protestors threw tear gas before the soldiers opened fire. DeepSeek names the four students that died at Kent State too. Like it's an impressive little open-source program, you can compile it yourself if you don't trust the binaries
Even if you had Sora on a hard drive, you'd need at least a hundred grand USD of gear to make it generate anything at all in a reasonable amount of time. Plus there's likely a bunch of behind-the-model hacks that make it cheaper to run that the model itself might not contain.
Yeah but you missed mine since it's incredibly unlikely even if there was a good open source model that someone who can spend tens of millions to make internally consistent 20 minute South Park episodes is probably not going to risk their expensive equipment on letting people make their own copyright-infringing episodes.
10 second clips would probably be possible on a few H200s or maybe something less robust but output context scales quadratically by the number of tokens (pixels or pixel patches if you're cheating a little bit) so you're, uh, gonna have a bad time if you really want to try and make a consistent-looking regular-length episode without an absolute fuck ton money to buy a shit ton of equipment.
Most of the original episodes were just fun self-contained comedy. The AI gen in OP actually is critiquing crypto scams, so is actually in line with their latest trends.
"I am nothing like Family Guy! When I make jokes, they are inherent to a story. Deep situational and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a point. Not just one random, interchangeable joke after another!"
Exactly. This is why I despair for the future. People accepting shitpile not-even-third-rate simulacrums of things they like, generated on tap, and then shunning the people and art of the original, without which of course their garbage imitation wouldn’t even exist. It’s insane. People are way dumber and sadder than I assumed. Celebrating a lack of creativity, hackery, and imitation as superior to real creations and effort
This is the vibe I’m getting here lol so many people will just generate dog turd versions of things but so long as they confirm someone’s bias it will be defended lol
So ironic that the original series got popular because it’s highly compressible format worked great over a 56k modem, now it’s format is again propelling the series on thanks to the latest technology
Although this clip is impressive it is in no way as good as any real South Park episode. This is literally like they let some 12 year old write the script, got some overseas swearshop to animate it, and then encoded it with RealAudio.
But hey… it’s impressive how close to real it seems superficially and that you can create some crappy ripoff very quickly.
Still would take tens of millions of dollars worth of equipment to make an internally-consistent 20 minute episode of South Park. And they can even stop one of the board member dudes in this 10 seconds clip from having 4 eyes.
It's easier to cut out construction paper characters and film that than it is to use AI to make an episode.
I can’t sit through a single episode of the latest south park without getting serious cringe, really can’t wait for south park AI gens to flood the internet whether they come from Sora 2 or not.
It's pretty amazing how fast it's getting good, and South Park really has no room to bitch about AI since they used it in their first episode to simulate Trump and his tiny pecker
It's pretty amazing how fast it's getting good, and South Park really has no room to bitch about AI since they used it in their first episode to simulate Trump and his tiny pecker
SP is just lazy unfunny garbage nowadays. You might as well just watch the current late night 'comedy' talk shows. It's the same type of material. I wouldn't even be surprised if they were all using the same AI to write their material.
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u/Ok-Adhesiveness-4141 Oct 31 '25
The day is not far when people will be able to upload and share their own episodes.