{"id":25200,"date":"2022-12-22T01:21:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T01:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/22\/south-parks-trey-parker-and-matt-stone-raise-20m-for-their-deepfake-company\/"},"modified":"2022-12-22T01:21:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T01:21:31","slug":"south-parks-trey-parker-and-matt-stone-raise-20m-for-their-deepfake-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/22\/south-parks-trey-parker-and-matt-stone-raise-20m-for-their-deepfake-company\/","title":{"rendered":"South Park’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone raise $20M for their deepfake company"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Deep Voodoo<\/a>, an artificial intelligence entertainment\u00a0startup founded by \u201cSouth Park\u201d creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, revealed today that it has raised $20 million in funding to accelerate its development of deepfake technology, cost-effective visual effects services and synthetic media projects.<\/p>\n

Connect Ventures and New Enterprise Associates led the round.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve never heard of Deep Voodoo before, you\u2019re not alone, but Parker and Stone are well-known. \u201cSouth Park\u201d debuted on the cable television channel Comedy Central in 1997 and is still going some 25 years later.<\/p>\n

Deep Voodoo has developed a synthetic media technology platform that uses artificial intelligence to support productions in ways that are faster and more cost-effective than existing visual effects technology.<\/p>\n

The company started building deepfake technology in 2020 after Parker and Stone assembled a team for a feature film they had developed. COVID-19 got in the way and the film was suspended, but having gathered what they describe<\/a> as \u201cthe world\u2019s leading deepfake artists,\u201d they pair shifted into building a company focused on deepfake technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe stumbled upon this amazing technology and ended up recruiting the best deepfake artists in the world,\u201d Stone said in a statement reported by Variety<\/a>. \u201cWe are psyched to share their brilliance with the Hollywood creative community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deep Voodoo\u2019s deepfake technology was used in a video by an American singer called Kendrick Lamar for the song \u201cThe Heart Part 5.\u201d In the video, Lamar\u2019s face transforms into visages of OJ Simpson, Jussie Smollet, Nipsey Hussle, Kobe Bryant and Ye, the artist previously known as Kanye West. Some of those choices aged better than others.<\/p>\n