South Park creator takes deadpan jab at Sam Altman

There's no end in sight for the South Park series, and fans will get a whole new bunch of new episodes in 2025. "We will last long enough to reach the singularity and pass it," Matt Stone, co-creator of South Park, said.

To Stone, South Park is like a sandbox where show creators can play, whether with news or something else happening in their lives.

The animated series for adults first aired in 1997, and the premiere of the 27th season is scheduled for 2025.

South Park has grown on us as an uncanny take on current events and personalities, where no topic or individual is off limits. Naturally, Sam Altman, the founder and CEO of OpenAI, hasn't been overlooked.

Stone recently joined Bloomberg Screentime in LA to discuss how South Park stays relevant and how he is experimenting with new technology.

When asked by Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw which tech person Stone would want to make fun of, Stone said Altman without hesitation.

"Just makes me laugh every time. Does he do anything but podcasts?" Stone said.

"Does anything he say make sense or strike you as smart?" he asked Shaw before adding that Altman is a "very smart guy" and he hopes to meet him one day.

Stone and Trey Parker's South Park already mocked Altman's OpenAI in 2023, in an episode called "Deep Learning."

Recently, Altman received plenty of attention when OpenAI announced it was switching to a for-profit model. Altman shared some controversial, vague statements about AI models "discovering all physics."

Stone has experimented with AI tools quite a lot himself. Stone and Parker formed an AI entertainment startup called Deep Voodoo, where they've been building the "best-in-class deepfake tools in the industry today."

"We started to try to make a movie to make fun of Trump before the pandemic. And we basically decided we were going to do deepfake technology to make fun of him and to make fun of a bunch of people. I mean, basically, it was a giant copyright nightmare," Stone told Bloomberg's Shaw.

Stone and Parker are into new technologies because they're interested in efficiency. Actors wouldn't need to spend hours getting makeup to transform into characters.

"I can be you, and you could be me, right? Or someone like Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, or Trey, who's incredibly talented and probably could just play every character better than everybody else, make that very easy," Stone said.