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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Maya Yang

George Carlin’s daughter lambasts AI-generated video of late comedian

George Carlin onstage.
The real George Carlin, at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, Colorado, in February 2007. Photograph: E Pablo Kosmicki/AP

Kelly Carlin, the American radio host and daughter of the late comedian George Carlin, has criticized the release of a new comedy special featuring an AI-generated version of her father, who died in 2008 due to heart failure.

“My dad spent a lifetime perfecting his craft from his very human life, brain and imagination. No machine will ever replace his genius. These AI-generated products are clever attempts at trying to recreate a mind that will never exist again,” Kelly Carlin wrote in a series of tweets on X.

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