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Re:A full episode of South Park generated by AI by stephencoyner on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @07:26PM (#36794953)
It seems like it could well be fake. The Twitter account that launched this paper [1] links to a website [2] for the company with a fake address and what seems like fake employees (they all have no LinkedIn profiles).

The address is 500 Baudrillard Drive, San Francisco, CA 94127 which doesn't exist, but Jean Baudrillard [3] was a French sociologist and philosopher focused on media, culture, technological communication, and the concept of “hyperreality”

1: https://twitter.com/fablesimulation 2: https://www.thesimulation.co/ 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard

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Re:A full episode of South Park generated by AI by joe_the_user on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @09:49PM (#36795975)
Ironically, while the paper is incoherent, it's weird terminology and reasoning makes it more entertaining than the generated episode: "While using and prompting a large language model as part of the process can introduce "several30 challenges". Some of them, like hallucinations, which introduce uncertainty or in more creative terms "unexpectedness", can be regarded as creative side-effects to influence the expected story outcome in positive ways."
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