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Sassy Justice with Fred Sassy (Full Episode) | Deep Fake and Deep Fake: The Movie

Sassy Justice with Fred Sassy (Full Episode) | Deep Fake and Deep Fake: The Movie

Sassy Justice
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About this video

Full episode of Sassy Justice, a satirical local-news show from the South Park creators starring a deepfaked consumer advocate, Fred Sassy. It uses face-swapped public figures to comment on the dangers of manipulated video.

Why it appears in the archive

Brought up in every deepfake thread as a funny and technically convincing early example of synthetic media used for satire.

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From the Hacker News discussion

1cvmask · 2021-06 · rec

Another click bait article. Beware. Facial recognition was banned by SF before in the US. But it’s a technology evolving. And susceptible to manipulation as well. Watch the avantgarde comedy by the creators of South Park: [VIDEO]

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1cvmask · 2021-10 · rec

This was known quite a while before and is trivial. We already have it for faces. A hilarious take on deepfakes: [VIDEO]

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brahweh · 2020-11 · reference

At about 3:18 into the video you can see what appears to be Serafinowicz playing Sassy as the camera moves behind him. Makes sense that faking would be hard from strange oblique angles, so looks like they just skipped it. [VIDEO]

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lucideer · 2021-07 · reference

While it's blatantly obvious from the context and subject matter that they're fake, I did find quite a few of the Sassy Justice[0] series' examples to be quite convincing from a technical standpoint (I imagine they could have been undetectable given more subtle context & subject matter) [0] [VIDEO]

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aaron695 · 2021-07 · reference

Interesting we are talking about this now and not when the commercial production "Sassy Justice" came out [VIDEO] Arguably Sassy Justice is worse, Donald Trump is alive, and I don't think Sassy Justice was an attack, but it wan't flattering either. Sassy Justice was not audio, somewhat clear satire but no warnings. It reminds me when Boko Haram kidnapped the 200 Chibok schoolgirls, they killed and kidnapped 1000's of school boys first. You don't have to like Trump or care about boys but it can come back to bite you. I just hope synthetic media in docos is pointing out to people doco's aren't the truth tellers people think they are. They are entertainment not purveyors of truth.

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seanicus · 2021-07 · reference

Not a lawyer but you need likeness rights to reproduce an actor's face. I.e. Peter Cushing's estate gave permission for him to "appear" in Rogue One. But maybe it doesn't apply to parody(?) [VIDEO]

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BlueTemplar · 2022-04 · reference

South Park creators have jumped on this occasion : "Sassy Justice with Fred Sassy" (reporting on Deep Fakes) : [VIDEO]

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colordrops · 2022-10 · reference

> recreating specific individuals’ likenesses in compromising images (or even worse, video). We’re not at that point yet Yes we are. There have been papers coming out on this tech for years now, with even the south park people doing videos using it. [VIDEO]

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