George Carlin’s daughter Kelly Carlin is not laughing at an AI-generated comedy special on YouTUbe consisting entirely of an “impersonation” of her comic-genius father. The specia…
  • takeda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    10 months ago

    I think she is right. It is just as it said an impersonation of him. It sounds like him, the jokes are similar to the point like someone took the best known pieces and tried to use them to generate new jokes, but despite that, it still doesn’t feel like him.

    I think the difference is that George Carlin had some commentary to say how things are fucked up and just used humor, because otherwise it would be very depressing.

    It reminds me like Jon Stewart leaving the Daily Show and the show being taken by Trevor Noah. Yeah, Trevor wasn’t bad, but with him the show just went back to be only comedy and nothing else. Jon actually was doing comedy, but he wanted to improve things.

    • cabbage@piefed.social
      7·
      10 months ago

      If anything the George Carlin-imitating AI serves to highlight that the brilliance of Carlin was in his thinking, not in his shtick of delivering cynical jokes in his signature fashion. The AI captures the cynicism and the voice and at least in part the delivery, yet it just left me bored. Carlin on the other hand I can listen to again and again.

      I guess it’s like training a moral philosophy bot. Sure, you could train an AI on everything Immanuel Kant has ever written and it would be capable of delivering an endless series of platitudes that sound like something Kant could have written, but it’s not going to become a Kantian philosopher, and you’ll be better off just reading Kant.

  • GombeenSysadmin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    10 months ago

    It’s actually a way to generate unlimited energy. That man is spinning in his grave at 6,000 rpm. Do one for Bill Hicks and Sean Locke and we have solved the energy crisis folks.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    10 months ago

    I had to sit and listen to it before I could form an opinion.

    Some of the bits early on, where it just lists five or six things in a row, were pretty rough. Carlin would have done better.

    But there is one joke that is subversive enough that I refuse to believe the AI wrote alone:

    https://youtu.be/2kONMe7YnO8#t=43m18s

  • thefartographer@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    10 months ago

    No machine will ever replace his genius

    Wow, way to hurt Robo-George’s feelings…

  • fubarx@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Had trouble making it through even the first couple of minutes.

    Sorry, not for me.

  • SereneHurricane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    I genuinely tried listening to it with an open mind. It was just rehashed content. No new insights with modern day context.

    George Carlin’s work from decades ago somehow still seems more relevant even now, and the new AI based version doesn’t seem capable of holding truth to account.