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A new comedy special starts with the quote, "I'm sorry it took me so long to come out with new material, but I do have a pretty good excuse. I was dead."

The voice sounds like comedian George Carlin, but that would be impossible, as Carlin died in 2008. The voice in the special is actually generated by an artificial intelligence (AI).

"This is not my father. It's so ghoulish. It's so creepy," Carlin's daughter, Kelly Carlin-McCall, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.

The YouTube account Dudesy, which is described as a podcast, artificial intelligence and "first of its kind media experiment," released the hour-long special on Jan. 9. CBC reached out to the producers of Dudesy and its co-host Will Sasso for comment, but did not get a response.

Sasso and co-host Chad Kultgen say they can't reveal the company behind the AI due to a non-disclosure agreement, according to Vice. The channel launched in March 2022.

Carlin-McCall said the channel never reached out to the family or asked for permission to use her father's likeness. She says her father took great pride in the thought and effort he put into writing his material.

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[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Calling this "slavery" is ridiculously overly-emotive. You can't enslave a dead person.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can’t enslave a dead person.

Give the investor class time.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

If we were able to digitize the mind of George Carlin, and then we forced that digital mind to write and perform new standup material or be tortured, that would be enslavement of a dead person, and yeah, that sounds like something financiers would love

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I Have No Mouth But I Must Write Comedy

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I was just thinking necromancy for factory work, but sure, that too.

[–] Llewellyn@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No, because he would be alive then. Or it would not be him tortured,

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. - The Legal Understanding of Slavery: From the Historical to the Contemporary

I think the term is accurate.

They are using his image and work to create something new without his consent or the consent of his family.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Who is the person being owned as property here?

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 9 points 10 months ago (33 children)

This isn't George's labour. It's the labour of an AI pretending to be George. Is an impressionist also enslaving him?

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[–] Llewellyn@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Are you serious?

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (21 children)

A dead person is not a person any more. An AI voice emulator is certainly not a person.

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