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George Carlin Estate Settles Lawsuit Over AI-Generated Comedy Special (variety.com)
submitted 7 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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George Carlin‘s estate has settled a lawsuit over an AI-generated imitation of the late comedian, with the creators agreeing to remove it from their YouTube channel and podcast feed.

In January, the Dudesy podcast released “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” which purported to be an hour-long special created by artificial intelligence. Carlin died in 2008, but the special featured a sound-alike voice doing Carlin-esque material on contemporary topics like trans rights and defunding the police.

The estate sued, alleging that the special violated the estate’s copyrights and its publicity right to Carlin’s name, image and likeness.

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[–] superfes@lemmy.world 50 points 7 months ago (1 children)

IMHO, they should have not settled, and won a lawsuit for precedent, this is going to keep happening.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago

My understanding is that this is what’s happening everywhere. Instead of establishing some precedent, every party is just cashing out with licence agreements or settlements. Basically hedging their bets it seems.

Meanwhile the game plan from big AI is obviously to keep burning cash until they rule the world (or die).