The property of late comic George Carlin is suing the creators of a comedy “particular” that used AI to recreate his persona.
Posted on YouTube in early January, the AI-generated George Carlin: I am Glad I am Lifeless was scripted and introduced by comedy AI Dudesy, steered by people Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen. The hour-long video would not really function the true comic, who died in 2008. As an alternative, it is an AI-generated impersonation of Carlin speaking about “the matters I feel the comedy legend can be speaking about at present.” At present, the video has over half 1,000,000 views.
The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in federal court docket in Los Angeles, accuses the video’s creators of copyright infringement, saying they did not have permission to make use of Carlin’s likeness or materials, together with his albums and comedy standup specials, which the AI was educated on. The lawsuit describes the video as “computer-generated click-bait which detracts from the worth of Carlin’s comedic works and harms his fame.”
“It’s a informal theft of an awesome American artist’s work,” it reads.
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Within the submitting, Carlin’s property additionally mentioned the AI-generated video “may deter youthful audiences, who’re unfamiliar with George Carlin, from participating along with his actual work that’s his legacy,” and that the creators additionally infringed on copyright of their promotion of the “particular” on the Dudesy podcast and its social media accounts.
The property is suing for damages and calls for the creators take down the video from all platforms and destroy any copies.
“The Dudesy Particular is a bastardization of Carlin’s actual work and his legacy,” reads the submitting. “George Carlin, if he have been alive at present, might effectively have commented upon the matters mentioned within the Dudesy Particular, however he would have had management over what these feedback have been.”
“The Dudesy Particular is a bastardization of Carlin’s actual work and his legacy.”
Within the video in query, the AI claims the impersonation is “developed in the very same manner a human impressionist would…I listened to all of George Carlin’s materials and did my finest to mimic his voice, cadence, and perspective in addition to the subject material I feel would have him at present.” As Mashable’s Tim Marcin writes, “The Dudesy particular is a voice-accurate copy of Carlin, not including context however quite attempting to resurrect a ghost. It is a bizarre, much less humorous model of Carlin.”
Carlin’s daughter, Kelly, posted a thread on Twitter/X following the video’s launch. “My dad spent a lifetime perfecting his craft from his very human life, mind and creativeness. No machine will ever change his genius,” she wrote.
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