originally in the calendar month , a comedy special feature anAI - generated George Carlinshowed up on YouTube . The jokes were n’t that great and there were interrogation about using a dead soul ’s similitude without permit , and on Thursday , a lawsuit from the fabled comedian ’s family made it absolved that this is n’t a laughing thing .
The estate of George Carlinfiled a suitin California over the “ George Carlin : I ’m Glad I ’m Dead ” comedy special produced by Dudesy . The cause claims the special constitutes copyright infraction and was make to profit off of Carlin ’s likeness without license . harmonise to the suit , the the three estates is seeking the immediate remotion of the special and an unspecified amount for damages .
The lawsuit is one of the first to dig into the legality of using AI to create a person ’s alikeness without their permit .
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Kelly Carlin , Carlin ’s daughter , telephone the AI - generated version of her father “ ghoulish ” in an interview withGizmodoearlier in the month .
“ Dead people do n’t get to have a vote , and that ’s what ’s particularly agitate to me about this , They ’re voting for him , ” she said . “ They ’re deciding that this is fine to do and it ’s a disrespect to his self-direction . It ’s a violation of his manhood and his personhood , and , of course , his creative unity . Ethically , it ’s the stinkiest move I could envisage . ”
The plaintiffs listed in the lawsuit are comic Will Sasso , writer Chad Kultgen , and a tech ship’s company that has yet to be named so it ’s referred to as John Does . Dudesy is a podcast Sasso and Kultgen host , but the two say they cooperate with an unnamed tech company to make AI capacity for the show . However , that appears to not be the case .
Sasson and Kultgen did n’t answer to a postulation for comment , but in a command to the New York Times admitted that the AI associate with the podcast is a fictitious character and that the jokes in the special were n’t write by AI .
“ The YouTube video ‘ I ’m Glad I ’m Dead ’ was completely written by Chad Kultgen , ” a spokeswoman for Sasso , Danielle Del , told the New York Times Friday .
How this will toy out in court with this newfangled revelation remain to be seen .
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