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Mon Mar 20, 2023, 03:36 PM Mar 2023

South Park Creators Use ChatGPT To Co-Write Episode About AI

TOM HALE - Senior Journalist IFL Science

Never one to shy away from hot-button topics, it looks like the creators of South Park have used ChatGPT to write parts of a recent episode that pokes fun at the much-hyped artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot.

Released on March 9, 2023, the fourth episode of season 26, titled Deep Learning, sees students at South Park Elementary discover the new technology that can write their homework (an experience that’s no doubt unfolding at schools and colleges around the world at the moment).

The episode ends with the credits saying “written by Trey Parker and ChatGPT”, although knowing the creators of South Park this could be heavily cloaked sarcasm. The credits also explain that some of the voices in the episode, namely the voice of ChatGPT itself, were created using Play.ht's AI-powered text-to-voice generator.

If you've been living under a rock recently, ChatGPT is a free-to-use chatbot developed by OpenAI that uses AI to generate human-like replies to questions and demands. The technology is based on neural networks, which mimic the underlying architecture of the brain to process information and learn.

More: https://www.iflscience.com/south-park-creators-use-chatgpt-to-co-write-episode-about-ai-68059?fbclid=IwAR2s03nXxlKmlvnv6zL5Og1YdDHw2797dKvTQ5jtAAKEOoqbvDpDKh9BWIc

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