The estate of George Carlin has filed a federal lawsuit against the comedy podcast Dudesy for an hour-long comedy special sold as an AI-generated impression of the late comedian. But a representative for one of the podcast hosts behind the special now admits that it was actually written by a human. In the lawsuit, filed … Read more
George Carlin’s estate is getting the law involved over the AI special, “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead” … suing the creators for the “bastardization of Carlin’s real work and legacy.” The copyright infringement lawsuit, filed Thursday in a California federal court, is accusing media company Dudesy of condensing 5 decades worth of the influential … Read more
The estate of late comedian George Carlin is suing the creators of a comedy “special” that used AI to recreate his persona. Posted on YouTube in early January, the AI-generated George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead was scripted and presented by comedy AI Dudesy, steered by humans Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen. The hour-long video … Read more
Someday we’ll move past the point where you can spend half an hour pumping out an AI video and generate headlines. Sadly, we’re not there yet. The latest piece of refuse from the AI hype machine comes in the form of an unauthorized, “AI-generated” George Carlin comedy special—one that practically no one, not even people … Read more