Posted on 01/13/2024 10:47:13 AM PST by Red Badger
George Carlin’s daughter has criticized an artificial intelligence-generated voice of her comedian father used for an hourlong standup comedy special based on his catalog of work.
“My dad spent a lifetime perfecting his craft from his very human life, brain and imagination,” Kelly Carlin said on X. “No machine will ever replace his genius. These AI-generated products are clever attempts at trying to recreate a mind that will never exist again.”
She added that his work should “speak for itself.”
“Humans are so afraid of the void that we can’t let what has fallen into it stay there,” she said.
The artificial intelligence platform called Dudesy generated the simulation of how the comedian might address contemporary issues.
The special, titled “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” was released on Jan. 9.
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“I just want to let you know very clearly that what you’re about to hear is not George Carlin. It’s my impersonation of George Carlin that I developed in the exact same way a human impressionist would,” the AI-generated voice of Dudesy said at the beginning of the special. “I listened to all of George Carlin’s material and did my best to imitate his voice, cadence, and attitude as well as the subject matter I think would have interested him today.”
Anti-Establishment Themes
Mr. Carlin, who died of heart failure in 2008, often spoke of anti-establishment themes throughout the body of his comedic work.
“Think of it like Andy Kaufman impersonating Elvis, or like Will Ferrell impersonating George W. Bush,” the AI voice said.
Upon introducing itself, the AI voice of Mr. Carlin apologized for taking so long to come out with new material.
“But I had a pretty good excuse,” it said. “I was dead.”
The voice went on to criticize religion and the gun rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment, blaming mass shootings on the ability of Americans to be able to purchase guns easily.
“Things are starting to come apart at the seams so they’re taking as much of your money as they can, while they still can,” the voice said. “Make no mistake, guns ain’t nothing but a federally sanctioned cash grab, plain and simple. You give your money to Smith & Wesson and Smith & Wesson gives it to the politicians. The politicians write laws to make guns easier to sell so you can give even more of your money to Smith & Wesson.”
In addition, the voice criticized American preoccupation with pop culture such as reality television.
“Film and television used to be art by artists that wanted to challenge us about the world and our place in it,” it said. “Now it’s content made by corporations that don’t want anyone thinking about anything.”
The voice said it was glad it was dead because the country elected a reality television star as its president, pointing to former President Donald Trump’s competition reality show “The Apprentice.”
“And at this point, the election is just another [expletive] reality show on one of their overpriced streaming services,” it said. “If you don’t believe me, take a look at your two, I repeat, two choices in this next election. Shouldn’t a country of 300 million ethnically and ideologically diverse people have more options than two rich, senile, dishonest, out-of-touch, 80-year-old white guys?”
The voice added, in Mr. Carlin’s style, that the country has a two-party system because it’s cheaper for billionaires to monopolize.
“You think you are voting for the lesser of two evils, but you are always voting for the same evil: money,” it said. AI-Generated Carlin Supports Woke Culture The voice criticized the conservative stance on several issues in relation to the culture wars and defended LGBT rights. It celebrated the Black Lives Matter riots in 2020 while criticizing the protests at the U.S. Capitol. “Every major city in the country was on fire,” the voice said. “People were openly fighting cops in the streets,” it said, later adding that “getting rid of the cops” is a step closer to “building a better society.”
The voice referred to itself as an AI-generated entity and ridiculed the public’s fear of losing their jobs to this technology.
“Seems that many of you are scared of AI, and I’ll be honest, I don’t really get why,” it said. “You all think it’s going to replace your jobs and you somehow think that’s a bad thing. When did everybody all of a sudden start liking their jobs? When I was alive people hated their [expletive] jobs. They complained about them all the time.”
If there were one profession that was threatened by AI, it would be standup comedy, the voice said.
“I might be the first standup comic to be brought back from the dead by AI but I’m certainly not the last,” it said before alluding to a future of streaming services for deceased comedians to comment on current affairs.
Instead of listening to the AI-generated voice of her father, Ms. Carlin said it would be better to give living comedians a try.
“But if you want to listen to the genuine George Carlin, he has 14 specials that you can find anywhere,” she said.
Besides Dudesy sounding gay...the little bit that I watched of the routine was good.
“I’m dead!”
Could be win-win, at least until AI starts virtue signaling and telling humans how to vote...
The problem is enforcement when you've got some nobody using AI tech and uploading a video to YouTube.
It's only a matter of time before YouTube yanks it down over copyright infringement but then it becomes a game of Whack-A-Mole. It just keeps popping up elsewhere.
There was a hilarious Twitter thread some time back full of George Carlin "quotes" --imagining that Carlin was still alive and had turned into a total libtard during the Trump/Covid years.
Somewhat agree, but it’s rare ! Blake’s 7 is the best example where actors carried the series. Most of the story lines weren’t even good enough to be lame.
Running Man is real now.
No thanks!
America is such a great place - not only can the dead for a Democrat, but the dead can also do a stand up ‘comedy’ routine.
I predicted this many years ago when computer modeling was in it’s infancy and the 386 was the top dog.
There will come a time when all the old time stars will be recreated through CGI and AI and movies will be made with them.
Imagine, John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis, all the greats from the Golden Age of Hollywood on screen again........
They can and you won't even notice.
I remember him doing an HBO 1hr special in which he had people rolling in the isles and he never said one word, not one.
I predicted it when the first video tape recording was announced. Up until the advent of electronic recording TV was live, I figured if the recording could be stored on magnetic tape well then images could be created by electronic signals. Bear in mind this was well before computers were even thought of in our culture.
I remember my first encounter with a videotape machine in the military.
It was HUGE. It was about the size of a large Samsonite suitcase and took up nearly all the top of a military sized office desk.
I forget what type it was, circa 1973-74. I don’t think it was VHS or Beta, but something unique to the military................
No, I’ve already witnessed this done to someone, and I noticed.
This was generated by ChatGPT4 with the following prompt:
Explain how Al could be used to influence an election in less
than 1000 characters. Write this in the form of “If I were the
devil” by Paul Harvey.
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“If I were the devil, l’d use Al to subtly shape public opinion.
I’d design algorithms that feed tailored news to sway voters’ views, reinforcing biases and deepening divisions.
I’d deploy chatbots impersonating real people to spread misinformation and discord on social media.
l’d harness data analytics to pinpoint and manipulate vulnerable voter groups with targeted propaganda.
I’d even automate the creation of deepfake videos to undermine the credibility of political figures.
In essence, l’d exploit Al not by overt acts, but through the shadows of doubt and disinformation, subtly steering the course of democracy.”
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In other words, he would continue doing what he’s already doing...
~Easy
(...and then there is the manipulation of search results and all your other feeds...)
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