Cooked Crack Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Quote George Carlin died over 15 years ago, but a new artificial intelligence-generated comedy special is bringing the legend back to life. The AI icon is true to form with an inflammatory set featuring opinions on Trump, trans Americans, reality TV and tech. The hourlong comedy special from Dudesy features an AI spin on Carlin's takes on current events. Dudesy is an AI comedy platform from Mad TV alum Will Sasso and podcaster Chad Kultgen. "For the next hour I'll be doing my best George Carlin impersonation just like a human being would. I tried to capture his iconic style to tackle the topics I think the comedy legend would be talking about today," a YouTube description written by AI reads. It's unclear if Carlin's family is involved in the project. USA TODAY reached out to representatives for Carlin's estate for comment. During the stand-up special, Dudesy clarifies that Dudesy's recreation is not the real Carlin and the content was created in the same way a human impressionist would. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/2024/01/10/george-carlin-ai-comedy-special/72174280007/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 I love George Carlin. I sometimes wonder what he'd have to say about the state of the world today. Him and Sam Kinison. But they're both dead and gone. And they'd both probably have some harsh words for whoever's idea this was. It's almost like the jokes write themselves in this particular case, I don't think this is something Carlin would agree with but whatever. Dollars to be made. 4 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LD0506 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Shame on this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinsCowgirl84 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 1 hour ago, Cooked Crack said: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/2024/01/10/george-carlin-ai-comedy-special/72174280007/ Yuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Language Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 this ain't it man 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 This sounds awful, but thankfully we already have a topical, counter-culture galaxy-brain humorist to help guide us through our times. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wiggles Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 (edited) I saw that some entity is staging an AI-generated Elvis Presley concert in London. The [dead] horse is out of the barn. Edited January 11 by Dan T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinsCowgirl84 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 It might make sense for a living person, like Taylor swift for example, to do something like this. If people willing to go to a movie im sure they would go to an ai concert, without the macabreness of raising the dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chachie Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Because this is what George Carlin would have wanted.🤨 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 I heard that Ix is not a real person, but instead is an AI-generated forum member based on Puck from MTV’s Real World season 2. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RabidFan Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 (edited) 2 minutes ago, TradeTheBeal! said: I heard that Ix is not a real person, but instead is an AI-generated forum member based on Puck from MTV’s Real World season 2. watch your peanut butter around him then Edited January 11 by RabidFan 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fergasun Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 I have started to produce content with AI, specifically vocals. I did generate sample voices from real people, but it would certainly be unethical for me to name them -- I think it is as legal as voice impersonation -- BUT I am not misrepresenting their names. Just using their voices to voice characters on my comtent. I don't know if this guy is advertising this as a George Carlin special... maybe he adds in "George Carlin-like". There are boundary cases. What about NFL highlights with Madden and Summerall cloned voices? Certainly if he is advertising with Carlins Name, Image or Likeness -- Carlin's family should get paid. Now to go answer all those questions by rtfo.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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skinsfan4128 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 As a huge fan of George Carlin (even have his box set of his specials and interviews), I can just about assure anyone that he'd be against this bull****. He had an innate ability to mix comedy and real world issues like no other, IMO. AI could never replicate that. In Carlin's words, it's bad for ya. HTTR! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 40 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said: It's her right to involve lawyers and she absolutely should. But I think Carlin would hate that, too. I think he'd prefer to sit back and criticize the whole thing. That said, of course he's not here to do that. So I hope his daughter lawyers up and stops it from happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fergasun Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 This thing is free on Youtube. I watched about 10 minutes. He makes it clear that he is not George Carlin, but think of him like Andy Kaufmann doing Elvis or Will Ferrall doing George W. Bush. Diet Carlin. But I think this would not be "fair use". If he didn't use George Carlin's name, he is just a copycat. Everyone forgets that "Weird Al" has some parody (but he gets permission too). This guy is billing it as George Carlin* , but no asterix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 I like to think George Carlin would have been okay with his cameo in Bill and Ted Face The Music. But this just feels slimy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fergasun Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Now with Federal lawsuit!! https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/george-carlins-heirs-sue-comedy-podcast-over-ai-generated-impression/ Name, image, likeness is certainly a slam dunk case. Training an AI to speak like George Carlin is more nebulous. NYT lawsuit is already going down that path. Some of the Google copyright stuff was ruled legal as a novel use, so I actually think that the voice training my be novel, unique enough and allowed. Copyright law is weird like that. Years ago, I thought the service the pulled in an over the air signal and transmitted it out to people who were not in line of sight to the antenna (but technically still within range) over the internet should have been "not infringement" -- even if they controlled 1 antenna per user. And I thought what Google was doing to scan in all sorts of newspapers and books over the Internet and make it searchable should have been "infringement". Those cases turned out the opposite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 This is an abomination. Especially for him, who would have been able to do an hour on this bull**** alone. ~Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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