"South Park" Takes on ChatGPT

Now in its 26th season on Comedy Central, South Park remains television's most up-to-the-minute, ferociously funny and balanced take on the monstrosities of modern life. A recent example is the episode titled "Deep Learning," which finds the residents of the title town processing the culture-altering technology that is ChatGPT. This isn't the show's first delirious dive into AI, and it likely won't be the last, because in fiction as in real-life once certain horses leave the barn it's not likely they will ever return. I expect ChatGPT to become as embedded in the ongoing South Park narrative as digital technology, cancel culture and legal marijuana.