This week's episode of South Park has sparked controversy with a graphic sex scene between Donald Trump and JD Vance, alongside a plot involving AI-generated child abuse videos. The episode, titled 'Sora Not Sorry', opens with an AI deepfake of Santa Claus urinating on a fourth-grade girl, created by Butters as revenge. This triggers a war among students who use OpenAI's Sora 2 tool to produce explicit videos of each other with cartoon characters like Popeye and Bluey.
The adults in South Park cannot distinguish real from fake, leading the police to believe they have uncovered a vast child sex trafficking ring. Meanwhile, Eric Cartman, who was abducted by billionaire Peter Thiel in a previous episode, is rescued after the police trace a deepfake of him to Thiel's hideout. During the raid, the police find illegal surveillance footage of Trump and Vance's sexual encounter in the White House's Lincoln Bedroom.
The episode coincides with the release of thousands of pages from Jeffrey Epstein's estate by Congress, including emails suggesting Trump knew about Epstein's activities. The show's creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, have a personal connection to the technology, having founded Deep Voodoo LLC, a deepfake production studio. The episode serves as a commentary on AI and misinformation, while also delivering the show's trademark crude humour.
