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AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: ‘No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius’::Stand-up comedian George Carlin has been brought back to life in an artificial intelligence-generated special called 'I'm Glad I'm Dead.'

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[–] Jordan117 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I listened to it and it's genuinely not bad (on a content and voice synthesis level), to the point that I have a hard time believing it was entirely AI-generated. If it's not a fake ghostwritten by the creators, it must have been heavily rerolled and edited to make it so coherent.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I listened to it and it’s genuinely not bad

Of course not. Its predicated on the collected works of a decades-long professional comedian.

If you re-mixed a new screenplay using the combined works of Shakespeare (and called it, idk, West Side Story or 10 Things I Hate About You or The Lion King) you could put together a blockbuster movie fairly easily, too.

If it’s not a fake ghostwritten by the creators, it must have been heavily rerolled and edited to make it so coherent.

The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

"Mechanical turk" jobs are way more hellish than any realistic AI dystopia, even though some AI developments use MTurks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fully agree. There's absolutely no way his whole bit about guns was generated from an LLM, while including the tangent about Japan. There had to have been a significant amount of leading prompts to get it to that point. At which point, whoever developed those prompts gets (at least partial) credit as a writer

[–] Xeroxchasechase 9 points 11 months ago

Senior Prompt Engineer