A new comedy special starts with the quote, “I’m sorry it took me so long to come out with new material, but I do have a pretty good excuse. I was dead.”

The voice sounds like comedian George Carlin, but that would be impossible, as Carlin died in 2008. The voice in the special is actually generated by an artificial intelligence (AI).

“This is not my father. It’s so ghoulish. It’s so creepy,” Carlin’s daughter, Kelly Carlin-McCall, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.

The YouTube account Dudesy, which is described as a podcast, artificial intelligence and “first of its kind media experiment,” released the hour-long special on Jan. 9. CBC reached out to the producers of Dudesy and its co-host Will Sasso for comment, but did not get a response.

Sasso and co-host Chad Kultgen say they can’t reveal the company behind the AI due to a non-disclosure agreement, according to Vice. The channel launched in March 2022.

Carlin-McCall said the channel never reached out to the family or asked for permission to use her father’s likeness. She says her father took great pride in the thought and effort he put into writing his material.

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        That doesn’t describe anyone being enslaved. It says to own a person is slavery, especially owning their labour. But no labour of his is being owned here. George himself did not say those lines.

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            6 months ago

            Don’t try to gaslight me in an attempt to avoid presenting a rebuttal.

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                6 months ago

                Do you really expect this tactic to work out - denying the truth only a few comments beneath the evidence that you’re lying?

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                  It isn’t a tactic, and I’m not lying about anything. I get you don’t get what the dude was saying, maybe your first language isn’t English. But again, that is fine. If you don’t understand what he was saying that is fine.

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                    This is getting fucking creepy now. It alkost seems like you actually believe what you’re saying. But that would just be absurd.

                    Who’s being enslaved, mate?