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A stand-up special by an AI version of the late George Carlin recently dropped and it's causing a lot of contoversy.
The hour-long special, called George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead, is the work of Dudesy, a comedy AI that hosts a podcast and YouTube show with Mad TV alum Will Sasso and podcaster Chad Kultgen.
Dudesy opens the special by saying, “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. 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. So think of it like Andy Kaufman impersonating Elvis or like Will Ferrell impersonating George W. Bush.”
In the show, the AI of Carlin takes on such topics as mass shootings, streaming services, social media and AI itself.
Kelly Carlin, the daughter of the late comedian, blasted the special. On X, she writes, “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 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.”
George Carlin died in 2008 of heart failure.