George Carlin Estate Files Lawsuit Against Group Behind AI-Generated Stand-Up Special: ‘A Casual Theft of a Great American Artist’s Work’::George Carlin’s estate has filed a lawsuit against the creators behind an AI-generated comedy special featuring a recreation of the comedian’s voice.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    arrow-down
    9
    ·
    9 months ago

    They trained the AI on his material. That’s theft of IP without a license or agreement.

    • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      9
      ·
      edit-2
      9 months ago

      So any human comedian listening and learning from other comedians is also STEALING the intellectual PROPERTY of them? That is very incendiary language btw.

      Morally this imho comes down to a workers right issue. So there are legitimate reasons to argue that AI should not take our jobs. A kind of socialist market protection act.

      But to use intellectual property in this case is just asking to make anything “Disney like” to be treated as copyright by Disney.

      PS: BTW actually listen to the video https://youtu.be/2kONMe7YnO8 it is eerily good.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        6
        ·
        9 months ago

        Presumably they paid to see the show each time they wanted to go learn from him. Also, it’s extremely poor form to copy jokes. Learning the art of telling jokes like using callbacks wouldn’t require watching solely one comedian either.

        No matter how much they say this isn’t Carlin, the entire selling premise here is that it’s Carlin.

        • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          arrow-down
          8
          ·
          9 months ago

          The AI didn’t copy jokes, it learned how to generate jokes just like Carlin. The point of this impersonation for me is to be able to actually compare it to Carin, as a benchmark.

          It seems also clear that while this is mediocre at best, the next versions of AI will become as good as, and then better than Carlin. And then better than any human comedian could ever be. Might take a while but no doubt in my mind we’ll get there sooner than later. So then they’ll use artificial persona that become brands and are fully owned by corporation.

          And they’ll not just be insanely funny, they’ll also become incredibly good at propaganda and reprogramming human minds to their master’s agenda. Now a human entertainer at least has to have some humanity.

          My point is that IP law is the WORST thing you can use to try to limit AIs. The hurt feelings or lost moneys of Carlin’s heirs or other corporations are so utterly irrelevant in regards to the repercussions of this issue.

      • asyncrosaurus@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        9 months ago

        Machines aren’t people. Machines don’t learn. Machines copy data, manipulate and replicate it. That is copyright infringement. The laws for Machine duplication don’t apply to human learning.

          • wikibot@lemmy.worldB
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            9 months ago

            Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

            Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data, and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions. Recently, generative artificial neural networks have been able to surpass many previous approaches in performance. Machine learning approaches have been applied to many fields including large language models, computer vision, speech recognition, email filtering, agriculture, and medicine, where it is too costly to develop algorithms to perform the needed tasks. ML is known in its application across business problems under the name predictive analytics. Although not all machine learning is statistically based, computational statistics is an important source of the field’s methods.

            to opt out, pm me ‘optout’. article | about