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The lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday asks that a judge order the podcast outlet, Dudesy, to immediately take down the audio special, “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” in which a synthesis of Carlin, who died in 2008, delivers commentary on current events.
Carlin’s daughter, Kelly Carlin, said in a statement that the work is “a poorly-executed facsimile cobbled together by unscrupulous individuals to capitalize on the extraordinary goodwill my father established with his adoring fanbase.”
The Carlin estate and its executor, Jerold Hamza, are named as plaintiffs in the suit, which alleges violations of Carlin’s right of publicity and copyright. The named defendants are Dudesy and podcast hosts Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen.
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This is great. There was no reason for there to be any mention of George Carlin in the video’s title, especially not crediting it to him and especially not with a title like that. I’m curious if the creator ever sat back and thought that what they were doing was wrong.
A real AI comedian trained by living comedians would be an interesting feat, but coming right out the gate with the first real example being such a blatant theft of likeness sours so much opinion people will have on the idea in the future.
For what it’s worth, this whole thing is almost definitely not generated by AI. See https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/did-an-ai-write-that-hour-long-george-carlin-special-im-not-convinced/
They’re comedians claiming it’s generated by AI as a kind of commentary and schtick. The creators directly compared it to the similar schtick of pro wrestling at one point.
I watched a few minutes of this. Awful. This guy should be sued for wasting everyone’s time.
Good. I don’t care if it’s really AI or not. It’s fucking tasteless. Even if they lose this suit, I’m glad they did it just on principle.
If they lose the suit then that establishes precedence that this is legally fine.
Wonder what Carlin would think about his kid/estate getting pissy that someone did something subversive?
Ripping off George Carlin with AI isn’t subversive.
Demonstrating that an entire job class is about to get fucked into oblivion sure seems subversive to me!
Also, Carlin is fucking dead. How do you rip off a corpse?
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For some reason I don’t think this is much of a concern for you
It is possible to be concerned & also not wish to personally add to the problem.
Carlin is fucking dead. Who cares what he might think?
Carlin’s daughter isn’t and it’s Carlin’s estate that’s suing.
It was a joke, playing with a comment person I replied to made later.
I know all the good domain names have been taken… but even when scraping the bottom of the barrel, they could have done better than “Dudesy”. What the fuck, people.
