South Park creators' deepfake video startup Deep Voodoo conjures $20M in new funding • TechCrunch

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park and various other media over the years, have raised $20 million to continue work on their professional deepfake studio for creators, Deep Voodoo. The company got its start during the media shutdown of 2020, when the pandemic prevented most travel and on-set productions. Parker and Stone had already begun assembling a AI artist team for a film they were developing, and when COVID intervened they focused on creating the tools for use later. "We stumbled upon this amazing technology and ended up recruiting the best deepfake artists in the world," Stone said in an announcement on Deep Voodoo's site. I've reached out for more info and will update this post if I hear back. The Parker/Stone cachet showed when the company made its public debut alongside no lesser a personage than Kendrick Lamar.