@L4s I will not comment on the ethics of this, but I will say that if I had heard this without being told it’s AI generated (and the do tell you, at the start and again at the end) and if I didn’t know Carlin was dead, I would easily have believed it was him doing this bit. Now I was never a big Carlin fan (I pretty much only heard what could be played on the radio, and most of his stuff didn’t fall into that category) so maybe someone more acquainted with his material would have noticed differences, but to me it was a scary good impression of him.

I have to wonder if the daughter doesn’t like it because she realizes that she’s (I assume) still getting some small amount of payment when people buy his older stuff, but as much of his material was topical I’m guessing those payments are ever diminishing, and she may fear that AI impressions of him will diminish the sales of his older stuff even further. Either that, or possibly it’s unsettling to her that a machine could come that close to making a spot-on impression of her father. I guess if someone created an AI of my dad saying things that he never actually said when he was alive, I would also find it somewhat unsettling and maybe even a little creepy.

I’d also be interested to know exactly how much of the creativity behind this (the script) was created by the AI and how much work there was on the part of humans to make it sound natural. I get that AI can make the audio, that’s pretty much a given now, but where did the script come from?