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Creative Bloq
Creative Bloq
Technology
Joseph Foley

This creepy 'live-action' South Park deepfake is giving me nightmares

Still from an AI-generated South Park deepfake

AI image generation has advanced so much in recent months that we're actually starting to see the point of it. I mean, actual, practical uses for creative work, like testing compositions, rendering props and creating variations rather than simply realising bizarre experiments and horrifying mashups.

Nevertheless, the work that gets the most attention continues to be pieces that verge on the nightmarish. This terrifyingly unsettling 'live-action' South Park video, for example (still unsure of how this all works? See our guide to how to use DALL-E 2). 

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