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George Carlin Estate Settles Lawsuit Over AI-Generated Comedy Special (variety.com)

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George Carlin‘s estate has settled a lawsuit over an AI-generated imitation of the late comedian, with the creators agreeing to remove it from their YouTube channel and podcast feed.

In January, the Dudesy podcast released “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” which purported to be an hour-long special created by artificial intelligence. Carlin died in 2008, but the special featured a sound-alike voice doing Carlin-esque material on contemporary topics like trans rights and defunding the police.

The estate sued, alleging that the special violated the estate’s copyrights and its publicity right to Carlin’s name, image and likeness.

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[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 35 points 7 months ago

I tried listening to it. Didn't last more than 5m. It was horrible. Like a bad Vegas Seinfeld impersonator.

Best thing to come out of the lawsuit is to hopefully make people think twice before pulling a similar stunt.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 4 points 7 months ago

And every chode out there was pretending it was good, too.

Almost seemed

Artificial

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