As President Trump held a press conference at the White House this morning and touted the AI-related work of Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, SpaceX’s Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and a promo for Wednesday evening. South Park abandoned episode. It was less beneficial.
Here’s the logline from Season 29 Episode 6: “Butters is unhappy with the data centers billionaires are building in our backyards. »
The clip opens with an X-Pest exterminator ringing the doorbell at Butters’ house.
“I understand you have billionaires in your backyard,” he said.
“Yeah, there are more and more of these stupid billionaires every day!” » Butters replies.
The first image of the episode (see above) shows Butters in what appears to be his garden with the X-Pest exterminator, who has attached his poison tank and has his spray wand ready.
The subject of data centers is a hot topic across the country and particularly in Hollywood, where unions and workers worry about job cuts and writers and directors express concerns about the impact it could have on their art.
Among the biggest players in the data center rush is, of course, Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle and financier of the Paramount-WBD deal. South Park airs on Comedy Central, which is owned by Paramount. As in the past, the show’s creators apparently aren’t afraid to bite the hand that feeds them.
Mark Ruffalo and others denounced the introduction of “really deeply frightening technology” to Hollywood and the impact AI could have on the media that will soon be owned by Ellison and his son David.
“Larry is a classic oligarch,” Ruffalo wrote. “They are crushing workers and consolidating the wealth of the world for their own power and concentrated domination. »
Paramount, for its part, responded by accusing Ruffalo of using “anti-Semitic tropes” in his argument, including linking the acquisition of the Ellison studio to Oracle’s work with the Israeli military.
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