Sassy Justice with Fred Sassy (Full Episode) | Deep Fake and Deep Fake: The Movie
Why Hacker News recommends it
Brought up in every deepfake thread as a funny and technically convincing early example of synthetic media used for satire.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2020 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Recommends 1cvmask · 2021-06 · on “King County, WA bans facial recognition software”
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: [this video]
Recommends 1cvmask · 2021-10 · on “Deepfake voices can fool voice-recognition software”
This was known quite a while before and is trivial. We already have it for faces. A hilarious take on deepfakes: [this video]
Cites brahweh · 2020-11 · on “South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes”
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. [this video]
Cites lucideer · 2021-07 · on “Police officer plays Taylor Swift song to keep a video off YouTube”
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] [this video]
Cites aaron695 · 2021-07 · on “Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions”
Interesting we are talking about this now and not when the commercial production "Sassy Justice" came out [this 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.
Cites seanicus · 2021-07 · on “Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who specializes in deepfaking big-budget movies”
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(?) [this video]
Cites BlueTemplar · 2022-04 · on “Dall-E 2”
South Park creators have jumped on this occasion : "Sassy Justice with Fred Sassy" (reporting on Deep Fakes) : [this video]
Cites colordrops · 2022-10 · on “Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffusion models”
> 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. [this video]