Family of late comedian George Carlin sues podcast hosts over AI impression

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The estate of the late comedian George Carlin is suing the team behind a podcast, claiming the hosts used artificial intelligence to create what his family described as a “ghoulish” impersonation of Carlin for a comedy episode.

The lawsuit filed against hosts Chad Kultgen and Will Sasso, the latter of whom is from B.C., said the team infringed on the estate’s copyright by using Carlin’s life’s work to train an AI program in order to impersonate him for the Dudesy podcast’s hour-long episode titled “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead.”

“The defendants’ AI-generated ‘George Carlin Special’ is not a creative work. It is a piece of computer-generated clickbait

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