On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:13:01 -0600
JAB <
here@is.invalid> wrote:
Variety
George Carlin Estate Files Lawsuit Against Group Behind AI-Generated
Stand-Up Special: 'A Casual Theft of a Great American Artist's Work'
And we've now learned that it wasn't AI at all. It was just some dude
ripping off Carlin's work. Enjoy the lawsuit, asshat. The quote below
is from the excellent Garbage Day newsletter, highly recommended (and
Broderick has taken it off Substack, so it's easier to get now).
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Obviously, The George Carlin AI Thing Wasn’t Really AI
(Can you imagine anything more pathetic than using an AI to
fake-generate George Carlin jokes for your YouTube podcast lmao)
The Dudesy podcast, hosted by former Mad TV comedian Will Sasso uses a
very dumb conceit that the whole show is run by an AI. And earlier this
month, the AI that “runs” the show “produced” an hour-long comedy special from late comedian George Carlin.
As I wrote at the time, nothing that Sasso or his co-host claim is
automated by an AI is actually possible. Especially for two comedians
with a YouTube podcast. A human would have needed to ask an AI to
generate an audio clone of Carlin’s voice. A human would have needed to
ask an app like Midjourney to produce all the imagery in the special.
And a human definitely would have had to write the jokes and align the
images to be timed properly in the video.
And Sasso admitted that’s the case last week after a lawyer for
Carlin’s estate filed a suit against the Dudesy podcast. Ars
Technica has a good piece on this. The special was actually written by Sasso’s co-host, Chad Kultgen. The lawsuit will continue even though
they admitted an AI wasn’t involved.
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