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George Carlin’s Daughter Blasts Dudesy AI-Generated Comedy Special Impersonating Her Dad: “No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius”

deadline.com George Carlin’s Daughter Blasts Dudesy AI-Generated Comedy Special Impersonating Her Dad: “No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius”

George Carlin’s daughter Kelly Carlin is not laughing at an AI-generated comedy special on YouTUbe consisting entirely of an “impersonation” of her comic-genius father. The specia…

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1y ago

George Carlin’s Daughter Blasts Dudesy AI-Generated Comedy Special Impersonating Her Dad: “No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius”

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This is no different to training an AI on the works of Van Gogh, getting it to create a new work in that style and then signing it and pretending it was actually created by Vincent.
It is an insult to and an abuse of a deceased artist.
They are grifters, nothing more.
- Doesn't it literally open up talking about how he's dead though? I don't think it's really trying to pretend this was really him?
  
  Don't know, I wont watch it and give them views.
  It does not matter what this AI created crap says, it is using Carlin's image and voice to say shit he never did and that he never gave permission for.
  
  Yes this is accurate
- I'm not saying this special is respectful. But it is very much clear from the beginning that it's not actually him. No one is pretending it is
- Nobody, exempting you, is pretending it's actually Carlin. Please at least vaguely know what you're talking about before you post, you need not join the ranks of misinformed angry morons that actively ruin the internet.

Hasn't this been repeated for a few days now? If you don't give exposure to it, it will just die.
- It's the only way I keep hearing about it is all these rage bait news stories
  
  It's almost as if it was done on purpose at this point, jesus christ.

For what it's worth. I managed to sit through about half, and my impression is they got Carlin's tone and delivery. The only thing they got wrong is Carlin was funny. This isn't.
Maybe it really gets hilarious after the first 30 minutes and I just missed it, but this seemed to me to be the comedy version of AI getting the fingers wrong.
It knows the kinds of things Carlin would say, and it knows people laugh at what Carlin would say, but it's nowhere close to understanding why or being able to reproduce the experience.

Why Carlin though? He is one of the most respected comics of all time. I don't see him as the type to embrace A.I. type stuff if he was alive today.
I think Mitch Hedburg, Rodney Dangerfield, or hell even Gilbert Godfrey might even get a kick out of shit like this.

Listened to about half, it's Carlin topics and style, but the voice is uncanny, the jokes are eh, and the audience laughing/cheering is at entirely inappropriate times.

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