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This is being done against the wishes of Carlin's family. Kelly Carlin https://twitter.com/kelly_carlin/status/1745261544001466689

My statement regarding the AI generated George Carlin special: My dad spent a lifetime perfecting his craft from his very human life, brain and imagination. No machine will ever replace his genius. These AI generated products are clever attempts at trying to recreate a mind…1/3

…that will never exist again. Let’s let the artist’s work speak for itself. Humans are so afraid of the void that we can’t let what has fallen into it stay there. 2/3

Here’s an idea, how about we give some actual living human comedians a listen to? But if you want to listen to the genuine George Carlin, he has 14 specials that you can find anywhere. 3/3

I’m worried about his legacy. His reputation. His art. I’m allowed to do that as his daughter and while I’m alive. It’s important that these corporations don’t rape & pillage art. Don’t assume you understand who I am and what values I live by.

Fuck absolutely everyone and everything about this. If you had anything to do with this, shame on you.

Dudesy is an AI comedy platform

a what

Imagine AI Carlin having a one on one conversation with George Carlin... I can't even fathom the amount of hostility :)

In the future, everything will be owned and nothing taken care of.

it's a computer's idea of a joke, the last sentence is the punchline. carlin's observational comedy wasn't usually so... stupid though. Clearly a joke written by somebody who doesn't actually live in this world. Actually, if you take seriously for a moment the things people usually say about UFO abduction experiences and whatnot, it lines up pretty well with the sort of clued-out things the abductors say to them. They really don't seem to understand how life works here.

@self The word "gave" is doing a lot of work in that quote.

Ugh.

In order to make this kind of thing, here’s what you’ve gotta do:

1. Write a bunch of jokes in the style of george carlin
2. Record someone performing the jokes with similar delivery to Carlin
3. Train an AI on carlin’s voice
4. Use the AI to deepfake the voice into carlin.

3 and 4 are just a matter of time with any celebrity.

Given that carlin is one of the most influential standups OAT, a lot of comedians are already doing 1 and 2, in some sense. I’d love to romanticise comedy and say that most of the people doing this are doing it to hone their craft, rather than do this kind of cheap shit, however that’s not the case. I love comedy and listen to a lot of it to know that if comedians aren’t being hacky or cringe, they are probably doing the most soul crushing, cynical, humiliating things in the name of humor instead. So this is kind of par for the course.

I am definitely against using someone, especially a dead someone, to make money off of like this.

But I am watching the special, 15 minutes in, and it's actually kinda funny. Sounds more like an impersonation (exactly as it claims) than the real deal, but the material is spot on. Mostly. There are some jokes that aren't really there. Or at least, they fall flat because the AI delivery is far from perfect.

The stuff about God? Perfect. The bit about the child having unforeseen mental trauma due to seeing his classmates gunned down in a school shooting? Has potential, with the right delivery but was more shocking than funny. The quoted joke? Has a punchline; it just isn't very good.

I've found a new way to torture these dumbasses.

AI boosters continue stepping on their own dicks, disgusting everyone:

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/01/the-george-carlin-ai-standup-is-worse-than-you-can-imagine/

Something tells me Carlin would laugh his ass off if he was told this. Especially since all the things they made „him” say are not far from his views.