remember, regardless of how outspoken you are in life, nothing will stop the capitalists from reanimating your defiled corpse into a shitheaded centrist zombie if there’s a buck in it:

“I’d just like to say that as much as I think billionaires are destroying the fabric of society with unchecked greed and blatant self-interest at the expense of basic human rights for everyone else, it is a little strange to me that people get mad at them. People are the ones who gave them the money in the first place," the AI Carlin said.

(editor’s note: the above is supposed to be a joke from the comedy special these fucking assholes hijacked Carlin’s corpse to promote. I can’t find the punchline, but it’s supposed to be a joke)

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This is being done against the wishes of Carlin’s family. Kelly Carlin https://twitter.com/kelly_carlin/status/1745261544001466689

My statement regarding the AI generated George Carlin special: My dad spent a lifetime perfecting his craft from his very human life, brain and imagination. No machine will ever replace his genius. These AI generated products are clever attempts at trying to recreate a mind…1/3

…that will never exist again. Let’s let the artist’s work speak for itself. Humans are so afraid of the void that we can’t let what has fallen into it stay there. 2/3

Here’s an idea, how about we give some actual living human comedians a listen to? But if you want to listen to the genuine George Carlin, he has 14 specials that you can find anywhere. 3/3

I’m worried about his legacy. His reputation. His art. I’m allowed to do that as his daughter and while I’m alive. It’s important that these corporations don’t rape & pillage art. Don’t assume you understand who I am and what values I live by.

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Nothing is sacred to anyone who is willing to consume or make this kinda thing. 100% of showcases of AI capability are just AIs copying something humans do. Sometimes it’s chess. Other times it’s copying Monet, of Van Gogh, or in this case, Carlin.

This is exactly the kind of thing that the WGA was striking against and what big media corporations want to have happen. As shown by some of the comments in this thread there are people that are absolutely fine with facsimile as art. It’s all bad and I hate it. I especially hate how nostalgia for the classics is gonna drive this.

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Fuck absolutely everyone and everything about this. If you had anything to do with this, shame on you.

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Dudesy is an AI comedy platform

a what

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As far as I can tell this is just a vaguely scammy-looking youtube page who’ve managed to get puff pieces written about them? Dire.

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@Amoeba_Girl @self two years ago it would have been an NFT Comedy Platform, I guess

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I got the story on this from a friend who has watched it. It’s comedian Will Sasso “pretending” to have an AI co-host. He says in the first episode that it’s fake but to suspend your disbelief because they’re gonna pretend it’s real like wrestling. He visibly clicks a mouse to make Dudesy talk

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Ah right the lemons guy

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I remember him as the Mad TV guy

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I’m pretty sure there’s a third guy in the room with them that is their AI voice, because his hand movements usually correlate to Will’s stream deck camera changes

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I’m just happy I can wear my ‘Antigeisterbeschwörer Aktion’ t-shirts again.

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Imagine AI Carlin having a one on one conversation with George Carlin… I can’t even fathom the amount of hostility :)

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We don’t have to imagine, we can us AI to simulate… oh wait.

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