There's one line of work that is most threatened by AI, one job that is
most likely to be completely erased because of artificial intelligence.
Stand up comedy.
I know what all the stand up comics across the globe are saying right now.
I'm an artist and my art form is too creative, too nuanced,
too subtle to be replicated by a machine.
No computer program can tell a fart joke as good as me.
Now, that might have sounded like George Carlin,
but it is not actually George Carlin.
It's an excerpt from a one hour special called I'm Glad I'm Dead,
which is the work of dudes.
Dudes is both an AI program which produced that George Carlin esque thing, and also
the name of a podcast hosted by Will Sasso of Mad TV and not novelist Chad Kultgen.
We want to give you a little bit more of the special.
Take a look at this.
There you have it. Stand up comedy is dead.
Literally.
I might be the first stand up comic to be brought back from the dead by AI,
but I certainly won't be the last.
Richard Pryor, Joan Rivers, Bill Hicks, Robin Williams, Dick Gregory,
Andy Kaufman, Moms Mabley, Sam Kinison, Everybody's coming back, and we're all
going to have our own 24 hour a day, seven day a week, 365 day a year
streams commenting on everything that's happening in the world as it happens.
I resurrected stand up comedians are going to be the news anchors of the next decade,
which, now that I think of it, means news anchors are probably out of a job too.
I wanted to leave that section in so that I'm not the only person or the panel
who's not terrified of the future.
I'm going to go directly to you, Francesca.
What do you think about this special and about the potential of AI
to replace human comedians?
Yeah, it's just like George Carlin, except it doesn't sound really anything
like him, and it's painfully unfunny and says something completely counter
to what George Carlin would actually say.
Oh, I'm relishing in the fact that I'm going to displace
a bunch of comedians and and news anchors because it's all going to be dead comics.
Of course, George Carlin would not be on the side of the robots
should he be alive today.
I think this thing is incredibly sick and super twisted.
And guess what?
And this is news for Trey, myself, and other comics out there.
Anyone wants to do this?
I can't do jokes. They just can't actually like.
First of all, number one, I is all what we feed it.
And number two, I've spoken with a Google like a Google AI developer,
and he was like, you know what?
The one thing we haven't cracked is jokes.
We can't teach these bots to have senses of humor.
Yes, because they're robots. Oh my god.
But then again, Trey, probably better than some some comics we've seen,
you know, I mean.
Let's go to you in just one second.
What you just laid out is why I couldn't be a good comedian.
You have not yet proven a case for why it couldn't be a right wing comedian.
Hey, I think you probably Greg Gutfeld. Look out!
Trey. Woody, what do you think?
I mean, you know, seeing as how I've only been on the scene for, whatever, seven
or so years a relatively just got here, I do expect to be forced out and
annihilated by robots in the near future, just because that's how my personality is.
But I but objectively or really, I agree with Francesca because, I mean, you know,
I've gotten I've gotten on there.
I bet a lot of us have I've gotten on there and toyed with it.
You know, I've asked ChatGPT, you know, Trey Crowder is and it gets it right.
He's a comedian who's, you know, stupid hillbilly but uses big words.
Whatever. He was.
Correct.
And then I was like, and then I said, you know, tell me a joke
in the style of Trey Crowder.
And it came back.
It was it was like, oh God, why did the why did the liberal chicken
cross the road to get to the protest?
Y'all.
Right. And that was it.
- It made me want to kill myself. - But you should open with that.
Sounds just like me, I know, but anyway, so like the other part.
So I agree with what Francesca said. I don't think it's there yet.
I'm not discounting the possibility that it could get there
because of how exponentially technology advances and whatnot.
That part freaks me out. I do not think it's there yet.
I think this special is kind of proof of that, because I agree
with what she said about it, too.
The only other thing that I'll say about it is, the one thing that gives me
some solace is, I think that any comedian would tell you it's great to listen to,
specials on the radio or whatever, or watch them on your TV and all that.
But at the end of the day, like stand up, everybody knows who likes it or doesn't
stand up is best physically in the room with other people and the comedian
at the club or at the theater or whatever, with everybody in the same room together.
And I don't know, I guess with holograms or something, we could get there
eventually, but I think that is the main thing to me that'll keep this from,
you know, happening in the near future.
- Because although I don't see that. - Matt Rife is probably I. Right, Trey?
Yeah, I suppose it could be. Yeah.
I don't know if I would have done that domestic abuse joke or not.
So but either way.
- They usually have bigger. - Opened with the chicken.
Jokes on there. Yeah, yeah.
I want to give, statements from Kelly Carlin, daughter of George Carlin,
who said my statement regarding the AI generated special.
My dad spent a lifetime perfecting his craft from his very human life,
brain and imagination.
No machine will ever replace his genius.
These AI generated products are clever attempts at trying to recreate a mind
that will never exist again.
Let's let the artists work speak for itself.
Humans are so afraid of the void that we can't let
what has fallen into it stay there.
She clarified that there was no permission granted by the Carlin family
for this to be done, and then concludes with, here's an idea.
How about we get some actual living human comedians to listen to?
But if you want to listen to the genuine George Carlin, he has 14
specials that you can find anywhere.
She went on to, tag Zelda Williams and Melissa Rivers,
daughters of Robin Williams and Joan Rivers, and, said we should talk.
They're coming for you next, which they, 100% are.
I don't even mean dudes or whatever, but, yeah, like, they're they're coming for
every area, valve which controls steam, which is the largest digital distribution
platform for games, is now allowing AI powered games, on their platform.
There's very popular hit video game that uses AI generated voices.
Sag-Aftra is penning a deal with a voice generation studio that uses AI.
Journalist Jeff Jars of Jarvis testified before the US Senate about the need
to protect the rights of AI journalists.
It I mean, look, will they be good? Will they be funny?
Maybe not, but there's a lot of corporations
that are much more interested in.
Replacing humans than producing good stuff.
And so I remain concerned.
But hopefully, even if there's a flood of terrible comedians
on digital platforms, Francesca, we will always have artisanal comedy from
people like you and Trey in physical form.
Yeah, there already is a flood of bad comedians on streaming platforms.
You can see them all the time.
John, the one thing I want to say, because we talk about AI a lot, but I was
learning from my podcast, The Situation Room, where I had Paris marks on that.
I also is incredibly resource intensive when it comes to fresh water, electricity,
things to cool down these mass processing centers.
We think that it's like there's no footprint.
No, no, it's exactly like crypto to mine. Crypto is incredibly intensive.
Same thing with these AI generated BS that again guys, it's just someone getting
high in their room writing down ideas.
Trey.
You know, it's a dude with a mustache just riffing like we don't need a lot.
Also, you can really I mean, you probably have to pay AI more than you pay
an average stand up comic to do comedy.
- Let's be honest, generally speaking. - Yeah.
The other thing that I wonder, this Carlin special, we're talking about it.
Kelly addressed it.
I got shared around and whatever, but I'm probably just because of
what the thing that it is, right.
It's a AI generated George Carlin special and everybody said, this is wild, right?
Like meaning, I don't think people were watching this as a comedy special
and like, loving it in that context, the way that they act
like George Carlin's actual specials.
And I do think that that distinction matters to.
You know what I mean?
Because at a certain point, just the novelty aspect of it will wear off.
And also, I'm too computer dumb to speak intelligently about this, but as
I understand it, ChatGPT is somehow like gotten worse progressively and, you know,
like it's deteriorating, actually.
So that's another part of it too.
Like there are things you can tell yourself if you're threatened
by these things that can make you feel better and, you know, land on,
okay, we're not quite there yet.
We still got some time left, at least.
Maybe in that way, ChatGPT actually could make for good comedian, because I've
noticed that a lot of comedians were really good in the 90s and the aughts,
and now they're, like, super focused on what you can and cannot say,
and they're kind of falling apart.
Well.
ChatGPT blew up and then fell off, and that does seem to be the trajectory.
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