LOS ANGELES (AP) – George Carlin's estate has filed a lawsuit against the media company behind a fake hour-long comedy special that allegedly uses artificial intelligence to recreate the style and material of the late standup comic.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles, asks a judge to order podcast channel Dudesy to immediately take down the audio special, “George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead,” in which a summary by Carlin , who died in 2008, comments on current events.
Carlin's daughter, Kelly Carlin, said in a statement that the play is “a poorly executed facsimile orchestrated by unscrupulous people to take advantage of the extraordinary goodwill my father established with his adoring fan base.”
Carlin's estate and his executor, Jerold Hamza, are named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which alleges violations of Carlin's right of publicity and copyright. The named defendants are Dudesy and podcast hosts Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen.
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