{"id":13983,"date":"2024-04-03T20:38:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T18:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/george-carlins-estate-settles-lawsuit-over-comedians-ai-doppelganger\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T20:38:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T18:38:28","slug":"george-carlins-estate-settles-lawsuit-over-comedians-ai-doppelganger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/george-carlins-estate-settles-lawsuit-over-comedians-ai-doppelganger\/","title":{"rendered":"George Carlin\u2019s estate settles lawsuit over comedian\u2019s AI doppelganger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suit claimed Dudesy podcast violated Carlin\u2019s copyright, calling it \u2018a casual theft of a great American artist\u2019s work\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The estate of comedian George Carlin settled a lawsuit on Tuesday against the owners of a comedy podcast who claimed they used artificial intelligence to mimic the deceased stand-up\u2019s voice. The lawsuit was one of the first in the US to focus on the legality of deepfakes imitating a celebrity\u2019s likeness.<\/p>\n<p>The Dudesy podcast and its creators \u2013 the former Mad TV comedian Will Sasso and the writer Chad Kultgen \u2013 agreed to remove all versions of the podcast from the internet and permanently refrain from using Carlin\u2019s voice, likeness or image in any content. Danielle Del, a spokesperson for Sasso, declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/apr\/03\/george-carlin-dudesy-podcast-ai-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/424c057b4dc3edef45b15486807ab973a1f81a96\/0_39_2464_1478\/master\/2464.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=80e820e9cd468a5b54c9905937b3935f\" title=\"George Carlin\u2019s estate settles lawsuit over comedian\u2019s AI doppelganger\" \/>Suit claimed Dudesy podcast violated Carlin\u2019s copyright, calling it \u2018a casual theft of a great American artist\u2019s work\u2019<br \/>\nThe estate of comedian George Carlin settled a lawsuit on Tuesday against the owners of a comedy podcast who claimed they used artificial intelligence to mimic the deceased stand-up\u2019s voice. The lawsuit was one of the first in the US to focus on the legality of deepfakes imitating a celebrity\u2019s likeness.<br \/>\nThe Dudesy podcast and its creators \u2013 the former Mad TV comedian Will Sasso and the writer Chad Kultgen \u2013 agreed to remove all versions of the podcast from the internet and permanently refrain from using Carlin\u2019s voice, likeness or image in any content. Danielle Del, a spokesperson for Sasso, declined to comment. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suit claimed Dudesy podcast violated Carlin\u2019s copyright, calling it \u2018a casual theft of a great American artist\u2019s work\u2019 The estate of comedian George Carlin settled a lawsuit on Tuesday against the owners of a comedy podcast who claimed they used artificial intelligence to mimic the deceased stand-up\u2019s voice. The lawsuit was one of the first &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/george-carlins-estate-settles-lawsuit-over-comedians-ai-doppelganger\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">George Carlin\u2019s estate settles lawsuit over comedian\u2019s AI doppelganger<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13983"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}