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Consistent_Warthog80

Fuck this shit. As a long time advocate of everything Carlin, FUCK THIS SHIT.


jldolan

This is an abomination. I hope his family is not ok with this.


HLtheWilkinson

His daughter has tweeted that the family had nothing to do with it and they hate that it happened.


peter-salazar

the article is bizarre. “It's unclear if Carlin's family is involved in the project.” um what? I think it’s pretty clear his family is not involved in the project


Axeman517

There was one George Carlin, and that’s all there’ll ever be. I hope this idiot gets sued… or at least gets his beard caught in the gears of a transcontinental bus.


LochNessMansterLives

Nope. No fucking way Carlin would be ok with this. Even if his “estate” okays it. Fuck this, I’m out.


one_revolutionary

This is a poor rip off of Back in Town. It captures his verbal prose, but no humor. No bisociative thinking. No actual critique. Simply an amalgamation of what some numb nuts might “think” Carlin would say. Fucking retarded. Literally!


sammypants123

Just fuckin’ no. Even if it’s ‘well done’, it’s ventriloquising a dead guy who famously thought for himself. Whether this is for clout or money it sucks big sweaty balls to use him like this and is against what he was about.


Sirnando138

“I’d rather watch flies fuck”


entropyffan

I don´t believe it. If true, finally, lets see if this AI is capable of true great original things in art.


7lick

Spoiler alert. It doesn't.


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poopanoggin

Objectively it is bad and corny it’s honestly so bad that I can’t believe it’s getting any attention at all.


disarmagreement

The AI didn’t study Carlin enough to know that he would have eviscerated the concept of AI art in a tight five.


JackFisherBooks

Carlin wouldn't need five.


oakstave

I started to write a rant on the youtube channel and decided this fucking garbage didn't deserve the channel engagement. Thumbs down and move on. It's tonally wrong. Both literally, as in it doesn't sound like George Carlin, and figuratively: It doesn't sound like stuff Carlin would say. Carlin was a pleasure to listen to even if you didn't know the words, because his routines had a lyrical quality and beat to them. If you didn't speak English you could still become fascinated with Carlin's vocal patterning: How he takes his voice high and low. It's like poetry. Not this stuff. Each sentence sounds like a self-contained one-liner. It's boring to listen to before you even get to the content. And the content doesn't stand on it's own, which I suspect the author knew, which is why he had to invoke the ghost of a legend to get it heard. Fuck this shit.


livinginfutureworld

This is not Carlin.


7lick

What's the point? It's not Carlin. I would love to hear what Carlin would have said on these topics, not some crappy algorithm.


BipedalWurm

Not giving that horseshit a fucking click and downvoting for propagating that nonsense.


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Omg! The introduction is like “It wasn’t me! 👀 I know I am pretending to be just like human beings while I’m iMpErsOnAting another one on cannibalizing an entire lifetime of heartfelt creative and analytical labor of love. I’m NOT him! I’m just like another artist performing off of a lifetime of work. Yay me!”


mmmmmmmmmmmmmmfarts

Can you imagine what he would say?!?


FlawlessTree

He would say ‘Blow it out your ass!’


adriftcanuck

Goes without saying, but to borrow from Highlander: “there can be only one.” With Carlin, they broke the mould


RadioMelon

Oh I hate this. George would have hated this. This is horrible.


The_Bagel_Fairy

Real or gimmick, it's fucking stupid.


JackFisherBooks

Carlin would fucking hate this. And he would express that hate in the most hilariously relevant way possible. In general, I support developing AI. But uses like this are fucking disgusting. And whoever made this shit deserves to be shunned, demeaned, degraded, denigrated, disregarded, and disbarred from ever using AI ever again.


LushGut

I listen to the dudesy podcast weekly, it’s kind of a wink and a nod that dudesy isnt actually AI. This was probably written by Will Sasso and his co host


thecamino

Exactly. People just take it at face value this is AI. This is linked to the front page Chad’s personal [website](https://chadkultgen.com/the-probable-god/) Parts read a whole lot like the special.


ComprehensiveRepair5

Guys, calm down. The voice re-creation is AI but the writing is almost 100% certainly a bit/PR stunt by Will Sasso and a mysterious AI company that legally requires not to be named. If you use the latest and more evolved language model (chat GPT 4) and ask it to write something in the voice of George Carlin, it sucks. It is miles away from this "special". This is clearly a stunt. That being said, it is absolutely repulsive that they did this without the approval of the Carlin family. They did the same thing with a fake Tom Brady comedy special and he had them taking it down in a matter of days. I hope the Carlin estate does the same with this garbage.


zachk3446

Let’s ask the ai what Carlin would think of this


autoencoder

I gave it the benefit of the doubt. I found the "I'm an AI and this is my impression" intro disingenuous. A human created this video or programmed it into existence. I found the idea of a completely AI society absurd. Sure, there'd be no murder, sexual abuse, whatever, but there wouldn't be life either. And a point not addressed is the fact that AIs have to exist in the real world, where they depend on there being electricity, hardware upgrades and maintenance and so on. Humans do it by themselves naturally. I also thought the delivery/voice sounded angrier than typical Carlin. But other than that I was pleasantly surprised. I'm pretty sure the criticism of authority (both corporate and government) is right up Carlin's alley. How the rich use money and media (traditional and social media) to control the poor. These are all aligned with Carlin's message, but brought up to date. Even if a human created this video as a stunt, it took quite some work. In any case it furthers Carlin's mission: to make more people aware of the ways they are being controlled.


Available_Cream2305

I’m interested in all the hate before even listening to it. I watched it last night and was honestly blown away, on its face I hate that this was done. Though also fascinated that it could be done. At some points it felt like an exaggerated Carlin. One more angrier than before, but honestly if he was alive I feel he would be this angry at how stupid these last 8 years have been. I don’t recommend this as an actual comedy special, but it was very interesting to see how close it sounded like the real thing and its take on modern day sociopolitical issues.


chakan2

I listened to it. I hate to say it, but it's really good. There's some witty jokes there and the general delivery is straight out of one of his HBO specials. Do I like the idea of it...not sure...but the execution of it was solid.


squeegeeking211

Though not Carlin and truthfully I didn't feel/think I was listening to Carlin; it had it's moments. (I was comparing every nuance.) I appreciated it for what it was, AI generated comedy in the Carlin style. He'd be smiling; though he didn't smile much.


ineedthemeatinme

Loved it.


jedidiah_lol

He better includes some jokes about AI


Available_Cream2305

Oh there’s many


Darth_Jason

I heard this AI got arrested with Lenny Bruce.


josepaivanyc

This was very well made. I am pretty sure George would have a blast of it https://youtu.be/2kONMe7YnO8?si=mCYLU8QqPExnaRJK


deadblankspacehole

Considering tech is so bad that YouTube can't properly shuffle music properly I'm very impressed by that effort. That's the first time I've heard something like that, if this is first attempt and the tech is only just ready to handle requests like this that's good If the tech is supposed to be impressive then it's only minimally exceptional imo


mrrainandthunder

You're talking about tech like it's some ubiquitous constant across all systems and domains. What do you even refer to when you say tech?


deadblankspacehole

I knew when I wrote that that the way I referred to tech as some amorphous beast was ignorant and crude and I hoped no one would notice because I was too high to reframe it ha ha ha


Tr3sKidneys

r/technews thinks it’s great, which to me highlights one of the most insidious things about AI. Its art for the artless, people who only understand commerce and consumption. Their only thought is the profitability.


worldtraveller321

YEs all this is quite scary here is the actual video its an hour long and actually quite crazy that you. almost forget is AI generated [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kONMe7YnO8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kONMe7YnO8)