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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.
I agree with you, and think that people are overplaying the AI hype. People think that training an AI is like training a human, and that's not really true.
But even if it were, what this guy is doing with his AI goes beyond that. I think anyone would agree that there is nothing preventing a new comedian from binging on all the George Carlin material, then making their own show, under their own name . But if that human literally put on a George Carlin mask and billed their show as "George Carlin", his estate would (rightfully) get upset, even though everyone understands this can't be the real George Carlin. Why should this guy get a pass just because he had an AI do all the hard work of writing the jokes?
Did you try watching it? The first minute or so is nothing but disclaimers that this isn't "really" Carlin, and the AI itself makes numerous jokes about its AI nature throughout the special. There's no false credit going on here.
If the creators didn't get permission to use Carlin's name and image, they deserve to be sued.
They could just as easily have generated an image to use if they didn't want to be taken to court. Instead they will have an expensive FAFO episode.
I don't know what you mean by this.
AI can be used to generate images of people. So they could have generated an image, put a fake name - or no name at all - on it, and gone ahead with the "comic relief".
Instead they co-opted Carlin's name and face.
Ah. You haven't actually watched the video in question, then. At no point did they ever use Carlin's face.
Nobody should watch it, because AI is bad. /s?
If you're going to complain about things that it did then it kind of behooves you to know whether it actually did them.
wrong. the man is dead. do you think i should be sued by the lincoln estate for wearing a tophat and counting my drinks by the score?
Maybe check on copyright and estate laws, so you can understand what's being discussed here.
don't be condescending.
i understand.
if the law supports it, the law is wrong.
Someone could snip out a joke and claim it was Carlin. Then the disclaimers are meaningless. This happens on the internet all the time.
Writing a comedy set (ai or not) and then having a Carlin bot read it out and then releasing it under his name is definitely crossing some major lines. I'm not sure what the legality of it is at this point, but if it is legal it shouldn't be.
Then that someone has done something wrong.
I could dig up one of your old comments, snip out something from one of them out of context, and use it to defame someone. Should you be hauled off to court for having posted that comment? I haven't even done it yet.