George Carlin AI comedy special is 'ghoulish' and 'creepy,' his daughter says
A new comedy special starts with the quote, "I'm sorry it took me so long to come out with new material, but I do have a pretty good excuse. I was dead."
The voice sounds like comedian George Carlin, but that would be impossible, as Carlin died in 2008. The voice in the special is actually generated by an artificial intelligence (AI).
"This is not my father. It's so ghoulish. It's so creepy," Carlin's daughter, Kelly Carlin-McCall, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.
The YouTube account Dudesy, which is described as a podcast, artificial intelligence and "first of its kind media experiment," released the hour-long special on Jan. 9. CBC reached out to the producers of Dudesy and its co-host Will Sasso for comment, but did not get a response.
Sasso and co-host Chad Kultgen say they can't reveal the company behind the AI due to a non-disclosure agreement, according to Vice. The channel launched in March 2022.
Carlin-McCall said the channel never reached out to the family or asked for permission to use her father's likeness. She says her father took great pride in the thought and effort he put into writing his material.
Your idea that personhood is singularily defined by a physical body with a heartbeat is strange to say the least.
Not what they said, but nice strawman.
I'm trying to figure out what they said. If this is "digital slavery" then there must be a slave involved somewhere. Nobody seems to be able to tell me who or what exactly is supposed to be the slave here.
George Carlin is dead, you can't enslave a dead person. The AI was never a person to begin with. What's left?
So you're saying that this simple voice emulator is actually a person?
No. Good try tho.
Then who's being "enslaved"?
They bolded it for you.
No, they didn't.
I underlined the bolded bit since you've poor eyesight. I hope it helps.
That doesn't describe anyone being enslaved. It says to own a person is slavery, especially owning their labour. But no labour of his is being owned here. George himself did not say those lines.
It's okay you don't understand, that's fine.
Don't try to gaslight me in an attempt to avoid presenting a rebuttal.
They would need a coherent argument for that instead of just rambling about slavery
Like I said, don't worry about it. If you don't get it you don't get it.
Do you really expect this tactic to work out - denying the truth only a few comments beneath the evidence that you're lying?