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George Carlin estate forces "AI Carlin" off the Internet for good

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One of my favorite clips ever is https://youtu.be/Nyvxt1svxso?si=ySyP8KTzOrhhGVCH

It's a big club and you ain't in it!

Thoughtful, funny, masterfully delivered.

I can see why they wanted it offline. I listened to the whole thing. It was fine, I laughed a few times. Mostly it was just nostalgia of hearing "Carlin" talk about current topics. It certainly wasn't Carlin quality though, and if you didn't know it was fake, would certainly hurt his brand and the value of his estate. (And yes I know it stated that it was fake a few times within the show, but if you only heard clips it could be a problem)

It's too bad they settled, because now we won't get any case law out of it around AI and copyright.

I'm disappointed in Ars Technica, though. They of all people should know better than to write a headline like this.

Can you imagine the amount of neurotransmitters that produced pain when the George Carlin Estate found out someone was using a dead person's work for AI?

There were probably a half dozen people in that room that felt mildly unpleasant for a moment.

Hope whatever money they get gives them enough dopamine to make up for the millions of people that won't get the dopamine.

what on earth

Off the internet for good? Someone tell Barbara Streisand’s lawyers to trade notes.

Streisand effect is significantly overrated, censorship/cease and desist orders work.

The strategy seems to work for Nintendo.

You can still find roms fine

Those are non commercial (as in, they make no money).

Try to make money off of it and the Nintendo hammer comes down at light speed.

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