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.world
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    11 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.

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      11 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.

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        11 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.

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          It’d be impressive if your nephew performed this at his thirteenth birthday party after becoming obsessed with Carlin.

          Given modern generative large language models are still about a decade away from a thirteenth birthday, this is pretty impressive then.

          Does anyone remember the Seinfeld AI generation in 2022?

          Do we really think this tech is going to stop here and not improve at all after such rapid growth in the past two years?

          By the time of its thirteenth birthday I suspect it’s going to have gotten much better at writing jokes.

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        11 months ago

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