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Sassy Justice
2020 · Film · short · 15 min
Directed by Trey Parker
Brought to you by "Deep Fake" and "Deep Fake: The Movie", Fred Sassy is an American Consumer Advocate and reporter for "Cheyenne News at 9", a local TV station in Cheyenne, Wyoming. On his weekly show, "Sassy Justice", Fred goes to battle for the common man in his hometown. This week, he's uncovering the dangers behind manipulated videos that are increasingly popping up on the Internet.
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It's not just porn the problem. Fake news or information is a problem too. And this reminds me of the "Joan is awful" episode of Black Mirror as another kind of disturbing activity using deepfakes. Or making fun of a public personality in some way like in Sassy Justice ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM ).
But is complex to draw hard lines in this because asymmetries between public people and not so public ones doing that, or good uses of the technology, freedom concerns and the potential of AI generation. Its not so much the tool, but certain people that misuses it. And stopping the bad uses in a generic way may cause more harm or abuses than not doing it.
As one example, Matt Stone and Trey Parker made a short movie (and tried to do a feature) with deep fake technology [0].
[0] https://collider.com/trey-parker-matt-stone-almost-made-sassy-justice-movie/
Trey Parker is credited as the writer for the vast majority of episodes of South Park, especially since Season 4. Most of their episodes are topical these days, I recommend checking out the recent Pandemic Special.
Matt, Trey and a guy named Robert Lopez wrote the theatre production Book of Mormon, which was well received and won Tony awards (Trey studied Musical Theatre in College, which explains why the South Park Movie was a musical).
Trey's daughter was cast as Jared Kushner in Sassy Justice, which was hilarious, and the lead in Sassy Justice is played by Peter Serafinowicz [0], who is a British comedian!
I hope they make more of these, not just because I'm a fan, but because it massively disseminates the power of deepfakes!
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-7NDP8V-6A