The estate of the comedian George Carlin sued the makers of a podcast on Thursday after they claimed to use artificial intelligence to impersonate Carlin for a comedy special.
The lawsuit was filed against Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen, hosts of the podcast “Dudesy,” saying that they infringed on the estate’s copyrights by training an A.I.
algorithm on five decades of Carlin’s works for “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” which was posted on the podcast’s YouTube channel, where it remains.
“It’s a fictional podcast character created by two human beings, Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen,” Del wrote in an email.
“The YouTube video ‘I’m Glad I’m Dead’ was completely written by Chad Kultgen.”
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George Carlin, Carlin, Will Sasso, Chad Kultgen, “ George Carlin, I’m, Danielle Del, Sasso, Dudesy, “, ” Del, ”
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