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The Case of the AI George Carlin Comedy Podcast
Is this what the future of podcasting looks like?
The video was composed of the purportedly AI-generated Carlin audio track — which sounds like a plausible copy in brief spurts — overlaid with a succession of images meant to accompany the topics of the routine; they all possessed the strange, curvy, and hell-house style that defines everything a visual generative AI system like DALL-E will churn out in its current public iteration. As gaudy as the stunt is, it felt especially agitating because it explicitly seized on a sacred cow: Carlin, a comedian whose deal was largely defined by a fierce advocacy for lived authenticity and who’s probably among the most painful subjects one could inflict with digital necromancy. Its timing is poor — a dual byproduct of the current limitations of AI-voice generation technology, and not having had the opportunity to of workshop this material in front of an audience to refine delivery — but it’s also unreasonable to expect a crudely illustrated YouTube video to possess the same gravitas as living George Carlin.
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