D. Dudesy’s AI-Generated George Carlin Special 49. The AI-generated “George Carlin Special” (“Dudesy Special”) opens with an introductory segment in which a voice calling itself “Dudesy” (the computer- generated host of the podcast) states “I listened to all of George Carlin’s material and did my best to imitate his voice, cadence, and attitude, as well as the subject matter I think would have interested him today.”7 (emphasis added). 50. Assuming Defendants’ representation that the Dudesy Special was created by artificial intelligence is accurate, the result was not created by “listening.” AI models do not “listen”; they apply algorithms to data inputs in order to generate an output. Here, the data input was George Carlin’s entire corpus of copyrighted works.
Heh.