if Chad did write the whole of the AI George Carlin thing, that makes it infinitely more depressing that all of the jokes I’ve seen from that shitty special were incredibly bland centrist horseshit, like a meeting room of capitalist shitheads workshopped a bunch of edgy jokes but not so edgy that someone might get offended into not paying them
but let’s be perfectly honest. these fuckheads will say whatever they think might give them a leg up in the impending lawsuit, because these supposed comedians are operating like a crime-as-a-service Silicon Valley startup. they entered the market with a product (the Tom Brady special), pulled out in response to utterly predictable legal backlash, lawyered up, came back with a functionally identical v2 (the George Carlin special), and are now trying to find a legal loophole or create a precedent that’d protect their work on some grounds, regardless of the facts behind how that work was produced. just like Uber entering into a new market, they’ll repeat this process again and again until concessions are made.
I can’t wait for these chucklefucks to drop the comedian act and start claiming trade secrets in response to discovery.
Well, the suit may fail, if the article is accurate, and it was indeed an impression done by a human from a human written script. The intro of the video says it isn’t Carlin and that it isn’t written by Carlin. So a claim that it’s a violation of the estate’s rights in some way hinges on it actually being an AI trained on Carlin’s material. Otherwise, it’s going to fall under the same kind protection that celebrity impersonators do. At least that’s what it looks like from back when I was looking into that kind of thing for a book I never wrote.
There’s a lot of leeway given to tributes, impressions, etc, as long as there’s no deception involved.
Del declined to comment about whether the Carlin-sounding voice was generated by A.I.
I bet they used an AI trained on Carlin’s work to create this special, but
Lugosi v. Universal Pictures, IMO (IANAL) means Carlin’s family will likely lose a suit based on imitating his likeness.Good thing I’m not a lawyer because apparently there’s several laws now, starting with the “California Celebrities Rights Act” meaning likeness rights are inherited and good for 70 years.
“The YouTube video ‘I’m Glad I’m Dead’ was completely written by Chad Kultgen.”
I am thrilled that I was able to correctly ID that based on this joke:
I didn’t realise they added a laugh track. That’s fucking sad
Imagine being ghost writer for an AI.
Eliezer, and Roko? Or is it more fanfiction.
Ok ok, now imagine being an AI ghostwriter for one of those AI girlfriend apps.
the catfishing gig economy
Time is a flat circle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel see “pink messages”.
It was invented in Cesson-Sévigné, near Rennes, Brittany, France.
Ahh, the French. (jk no comment on the french.)
Look, he did this as a result of acausal blackmail, so who’s to say it wasn’t from an AI?
thank you for your future acausal service
Another writeup:
Edit if you want a vision of the future: imagine being “entertained” by an AI stand-up - FOREVER
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/dudesy3-1280x720.png
Cory Doctorow also writes about this botshit: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/29/pay-no-attention/#to-the-little-man-behind-the-curtain
“Botshit” is a great term.
I’d go further and combine it with the similarly good “Potemkin AI” to make “Potemkin Botshit”
Yes, that is why I
stolecreative commonsed it from Cory ;).
imagine being “entertained” by an AI stand-up - FOREVER
This is the brain simulation future that rationalists want!
