George Carlin’s daughter slams AI-generated comedy special impersonating her father

Published January 11, 2024 2:58pm ET



Kelly Carlin, the daughter of the late George Carlin, has criticized a comedy special created using artificial intelligence to impersonate her father, who died in 2008.

Carlin made the comment Wednesday evening, about a day after the comedy special titled “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead” was released on YouTube. Carlin stated that her father spent his life “perfecting his craft from his very human life” and that no attempt by a machine to recreate his technique would ever “replace his genius.”

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