I watched about 20 seconds. Doesn’t sound like George, and the visuals were… not something I wanted to keep watching.
Well, that’s the question. Right now, I don’t think you can separate the novelty from the legacy of the performer.
I just looked and this video has just under 400,000 views. The AI-assisted new Beatles tune has over 42 million views. Obviously it’s not apples-to-apples for numerous reasons but I was surprised to see less than 1% clicking on this Carlin video. I suspect that a large part of it is novelty, some percentage is just “Well, Carlin was funny so maybe this won’t suck” and a significantly smaller percentage is people who are just dying to hear Carlin again. But take away the AI aspect and just say “Here’s a Carlin impersonator saying stuff” and it’d sink without a mention.
What do you think of those who never heard of Carlin, saw the AI special, and loved it?
This society can’t do it because they lack talent, so they do AI, drum machine, auto-tune, tribute bands, apps, computer, etc.
I’ll thank you not to conflate all of “society” with avaricious techbros.
It’s not just them. It’s the fact that what I love (music, film, humor, interviews, literature, language) was so much better than before I was born.
It wasn’t.
Then, as now, 90% of everything is crap. The difference is the crap from back then has been forgotten, leaving just the best 10%. Right now, we’re constantly inundated with all the new crap that’s being produced, with little to help us sort what is good and what should be ignored. Social media is awful at sifting the good from the crap, because popular crap gets more attention than anything else.
Thanks to AI, we’re seeing an even greater crap to quality ratio. People are shoving their AI crap in our faces, telling us that it’s the future, that we better start making crap too if we want to keep up. Actually, we’re still just as free to pick up our tools and make something ourselves as we’ve always been. Maybe what we make will be crap, and even the good stuff we make will look like crap next to the good stuff other people make, but that doesn’t mean it’s crap and it doesn’t mean we should accept that having AI crap shoved in our faces is inevitable.
Yeah, but the video games sucked.
So you are to blame?
This is a mess of a sentence. Do you mean:
The music and film and so on that was made before I was born is much better than the modern stuff.
If so, nifty, glad you like it better!
Me, I can barely stand Carlin. I find him to be smug and too clever by half, sneering at other people with very little introspection. Modern comedians tend to be much more self-deprecating (see Taylor Tomlinson, Noah Trevor, John Mulaney, etc.), which is much, much funnier to me. When Trevor Noah launches into a rant about the stupidity of somebody or other, I can remember his confusion over “napkins”.
But I don’t have to like Carlin to recognize that this is really skeevy.
Lawsuit filed by Kelly Carlin, George’s daughter. Yeah, I think you kind of have to.
[A]llegedly generated by a chatbot trained by Carlin’s own material.
Allegedly. Color me skeptical that AI could write that routine.
You get more clicks if you say AI wrote it than if a human wrote the exact same material.
No, this has nothing to do with AI:
Danielle Del, a spokeswoman for Sasso [one of the hosts of the podcast “Dudesy,”], said Dudesy is not actually an A.I.
“It’s a fictional podcast character created by two human beings, Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen,” Del wrote in an email. “The YouTube video ‘I’m Glad I’m Dead’ was completely written by Chad Kultgen.”
Ah, that rascal Kultgen, up to his old tricks…
Update: