Stand-up comedian George Carlin has been brought back to life in an artificial intelligence-generated special called 'I'm Glad I'm Dead.'

AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: ‘No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius’::Stand-up comedian George Carlin has been brought back to life in an artificial intelligence-generated special called ‘I’m Glad I’m Dead.’

  • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
    254·
    8 months ago

    I’m not here to rage about the whole human vs machine thing because I honestly don’t give two shits. However, this isn’t very good. The pacing feels like George Carlin, but that’s about it. It’s really more like an edgy Ryan Reynolds.

    • Guy Dudeman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1013·
      8 months ago

      I disagree. It’s actually pretty good. Hopefully some people will be outraged enough to actually listen to it.

      The joke structure is 100% Carlin’s. The delivery is almost perfect. The message is spot-on.

      • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        191·
        8 months ago

        As someone who’s consumed every album and special George Carlin produced, it felt like someone retelling their memory of some of his bits. Like regurgitation. It’d be impressive if your nephew performed this at his thirteenth birthday party after becoming obsessed with Carlin.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          61·
          8 months ago

          it felt like someone retelling their memory of some of his bits. Like regurgitation.

          That’s because that’s exactly what these are. They don’t create new things. They use and modify existing work.

          • stephen01king@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            8 months ago

            They being the writers of the joke, which are humans. The AI part is only imitating George Carlins voice and cadence.

            • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              8 months ago

              Oh, well that changes a lot. I assumed it was AI generated jokes. The people writting the jokes should just tell it themselves. What’s the point of using Carlin’s likeness?

        • Nusm@lemmy.zipEnglish
          42·
          8 months ago

          See, I disagree. Someone retelling their memory of some of his bits, or your nephew performing at his birthday party would be telling old George Carlin jokes. This was new material and was topical, which I think is cool. It’s hard to know what George would really think about today’s climate, but I can’t imagine it would be too far off from the this.

          Was it perfect? No. But if I know what it is going in, I can sit back and just enjoy it for what it is - entertainment.

      • Sekrayray@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        8 months ago

        Agree. It was fun to hear. The bit around 37 mins about what it’s like being dead was fun

        • Nusm@lemmy.zipEnglish
          42·
          8 months ago

          The bit about AI Bill Cosby made me laugh the hardest. “You get all of the Cosby jokes with none of the Cosby rapes!”