Empty Laughter
We recorded 8 claims from this post. 8 can’t be checked. 3 more are held. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (8)
In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“Dudesy’s “state of the art entertainment AI” is far more likely someone typing stuff into a chatbot and “surprising” two comedians with things like “getting a colonoscopy” and “a fake autobiography of Tom Hanks where he says curses.””
Our reading: Dudesy's claimed 'state of the art entertainment AI' is more likely just someone typing prompts into a chatbot.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“While I agree with Sasso that George Carlin would indeed have been a voice we could use in 2024 if he were not dead, I do not believe that any “need” for a particular artist’s voice justifies creating an abominable digital clone with someone else’s words in its mouth.”
Our reading: Zitron does not believe that any 'need' for a particular artist's voice justifies creating an abominable digital clone with someone else's words in its mouth.
No horizon
Qualifier: I do not believe
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“The voice of Dudesy may indeed be AI-generated, but I would wager a human being is either writing or heavily editing a script.”
Our reading: Although Dudesy's voice may be AI-generated, a human is probably writing or heavily editing its scripts.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“What I think is far more likely is that “Dudesy” is a collaboration between Sasso, Kultgen, and an unnamed artificial intelligence company, and the result is equal parts despicable and ridiculous.”
Our reading: Zitron thinks it is far more likely, compared with the alternatives he lists, that Dudesy is a collaboration between Sasso, Kultgen and an unnamed AI company, and that the result is equal parts despicable and ridiculous.
No horizon
Qualifier: what I think
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“This is entirely my intuition, but AI-Carlin’s jokes feel like they were generated by feeding transcripts of his real work into a generative AI, with the resulting CarlinGPT bot prompted by Sasso and Kultgen and its outputs heavily edited.”
Our reading: By his intuition, the AI Carlin jokes were likely made by feeding Carlin transcripts into a generative AI, prompted by the hosts and heavily edited.
No horizon
Qualifier: intuition only
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“You cannot create a new George Carlin, as he was created not only by the precise history and events that he participated in, but the relationships he had with other humans in parity with his own thoughts and emotions. These are not things that are simulated or simulatable.”
Our reading: You cannot create a new George Carlin, because he was shaped by the precise history and events he took part in and his relationships with other people alongside his own thoughts and emotions, and these cannot be simulated.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Rhetoric
“And I believe there are an alarming amount of people with so little soul, so little being, and so little personality behind their work that chatGPT does seem magical because — just like them — it doesn't have any of its own ideas.”
Our reading: Zitron believes an alarming number of people have so little soul, being and personality behind their work that ChatGPT seems magical to them, because, like them, it has no ideas of its own.
No horizon
Qualifier: I believe
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“An AI cannot experience time, frustration, jealousy, yearning, sickness, fatigue or any of the emotions that play into or impede creativity.”
Our reading: An AI cannot experience time, frustration, jealousy, yearning, sickness, fatigue or any of the emotions that play into or impede creativity.
No horizon
Held from this post (3)
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