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Left: his March 19, 2004 file photo shows actor and comedian George Carlin in New York. Carlin is featured in CNN

Left: his March 19, 2004 file photo shows actor and comedian George Carlin in New York. Carlin is featured in CNN’s docuseries, “The History of Comedy,” premiering Thursday at 10 p.m. EST. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)/Right:Will Sasso arrives at the premiere of “History of the World, Part II” on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, at Hollywood Legion Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

In a witty critique of modern society known as the ‘Ode to the Modern Man,’ George Carlin proclaimed he knew the “downside of upgrading” and that he was a “high-tech lowlife” who could give you a “gigabyte in a nanosecond.”

Twenty years later and years after his death, an online special featuring the legendary comedian’s voice and jokes transmogrified through those most modern means, artificial intelligence, has triggered a lawsuit from the American icon’s estate.

Reviewed by Law&Crime on Friday, the 23-page lawsuit filed in a California court was brought against Dudesy, a media company and podcast purportedly run by AI and hosted by Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen. The podcast published a video on YouTube on Jan. 9 titled “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” featuring a rendering of Carlin’s voice to tell jokes based on his work “subject matter” that Dudsey thought might interest him, and according to the video itself, uses the late comedian’s “cadence and attitude.”

The video, which is still up on YouTube, violates Carlin’s copyrighted works, according to attorneys for his estate.

“Defendants took it upon themselves to ‘resurrect’ Carlin with the aid of [AI],” the complaint states, alleging Sasso, Kultgen and at least 20 unnamed John Does “created a fake script for a fake George Carlin comedy special and generated a sound-alike of George Carlin to ‘perform’ the generated script.”

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