George Carlin’s daughter has shot an hour-long AI-generated comedy special starring her father, 15 years after his death.
After its release more than a decade after Carlin passed away in 2008 due to heart failure, she wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “No machine will ever replace his genius.”
The post follows months of strikes in Hollywood last year over fears that artificial intelligence will replace industry jobs.
The hour-long special, titled George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead, was created by Dudesy, a podcast run by Artificial Intelligence and curated by humans.
The podcast and YouTube show are hosted by Chad Kultgen and Will Sasso, who have given the Dudesy AI permission to pull content from their texts, emails, social media accounts, and their own work.
Comedian George Carlin performs in Chicago, Illinois, February 3, 1982
The hour-long special, titled George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead, was created by Dudesy, a podcast run by Artificial Intelligence and curated by humans
Kelly Carlin ‘George Carlin’s American Dream’ film premiere, Los Angeles, California, on May 11, 2022
Sasso denied in an interview with Business Intelligence that Dudesy’s AI is fake and said a non-disclosure agreement prevented him from disclosing the legal entity.
Early in the special, Dudesy notes that “what you’re about to hear isn’t George Carlin.”
It adds that the process of honing the comedian’s style involved “listening to all of George Carlin’s material and doing my best to imitate his voice, cadence and attitude, as well as the subject matter that I think inspired him would have been interested today’.
The AI Carlin then addresses some of today’s biggest issues, including social media and mass shootings.
At one point AI Carlin makes a joke about artificial intelligence.
“There is one field most threatened by AI – one profession that will likely be completely erased because of artificial intelligence: stand-up comedy,” he says.
“I know what all the stand-up comics around the world are saying right now: ‘I’m an artist and my art form is too creative, too nuanced, and too subtle for a machine to imitate. No computer program can tell a fart joke as well as I can. ”
Kelly Carlin criticized the post on Wednesday, writing on No machine will ever replace his genius. These AI-generated products are clever attempts to create a mind that will never exist again.
George Carlin wraps up his act with great success after receiving a Free Speech Award at the US Comedy Arts Festival, on March 2, 2002, in Aspen, Colorado
‘Let’s let the artist’s work speak for itself. People are so afraid of the void that we cannot allow what has fallen in there to remain there.’
She concluded, “Here’s an idea, how about listening to some real live human comedians? But if you want to listen to the real George Carlin, he has fourteen specials that you can find anywhere.”
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In addition to his frequent television appearances, the comedian, known for pushing the boundaries of acceptable humor, also released several comedy records and appeared in a number of films.
Carlin suffered three heart attacks in three decades: in 1978, 1982 and 1991.
In 2003, he underwent an ablation procedure for a heart rhythm disorder and in 2005 he developed severe heart failure.
On June 22, 2008, Carlin suffered from heart failure and died in a hospital in Santa Monica, California.
He was 71 years old and had given his last live show a week earlier.
During his early career, Carlin was married to Brenda Hosbrook, with whom he had his only child Kelly in 1963.
Carlin speaks after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 15th Annual American Comedy Awards in Los Angeles on April 22, 2001
She has been a strong supporter of preserving her father’s legacy as one of the most influential comedians of all time.
Last year, Hollywood was rocked by strikes by both actors and writers unions, which halted productions and postponed major releases.
Netflix has cut more than 100 shows from its schedule in 2023 due to the impact of the strikes and a spending cut.
The streaming giant released about 130 fewer films and television programs last year than the year before, a decline of 16 percent.
The company had increased initial production every year for the past ten years.
Netflix’s production fell by about a quarter in the second half of 2023, when the strikes began.
The release date in the last three months of the year was the lowest in five years, according to Bloomberg analysis of data from What’s On Netflix.