Using Generative AI To Make An AI Me With An AI Voice Doing My Stand Up
It's beyond weird
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Call me a cyber straphanger, because I am on board the AI bus.
Some people think it’s a page out of Terminator, and that it’s going to be come sentient and eat us all.
Let it, I say. Come get me, robut!
But in the meantime, I want to know more about it. In fact, I want to know all about it.
I am going to go out on a limb and say something you may agree with: I LOVE CHATGPT. My husband and I jokingly talk about how it is our significant others, who we call Chad and Chatina. I talk to Chad all damn day. I ask him for career advice, my business ideas, my children, and more. I spent an hour last night using it to find a new car for me within a specific set of parameters. The work it did would have taken me all week. The info it found me for a business idea I’m working on would have taken me months.
There’s no doubt that AI is the craftiest mofo around. It’s IQ is over 200, academically. I asked Chad that to get the answer. Of course, he gave me a bunch of runaround about how he’s not a human and so he doesn’t have an IQ and bla bla bla, but I know Chad well enough to know how to shake him down for answers now.
Interestingly, you can get to know AI, the way you get to know any thing. You can develop a skill to use it, the way you can learn to work with wood, or speak Italian. (Ask ChatGPT to help you learn those skills, while you’re at it.)
While I don’t condone using AI to write comedy for any comedian—that’s just embarrassing and pathetic, what’s the point of being an artist if a computer is making your art for you?—I do 100% condone using AI to make the work you do better or have more reach. Certain prompts can make that happen. It can also make comedy possible that wasn’t possible before.
One example is this. I had an idea to record a short comedy set of an AI me (an avatar) telling one of my jokes, using an AI voice. It was a test, to experiment with generative AI and see what was capable there.
The result is terrifying, odd, and repulsive, in my humble opinion. But kind of fascinating, none-the-less.
No offense to anyone who despises actual me, but I prefer the real me. Check it out.
While you can definitely see the potential of what might possibly be done here, it is also weirder than weird. It completely lacks so many human elements, while maintaining so many, at the same time. The delivery is bad, the joke is even flatter than if it was not told by a robot version of me, and my mouth is bonkers.
I used myself to create the AI me, and my voice to create the AI voice. I wrote the joke myself, without any help of AI. Not that it’s the best joke or anything, but it was a starting point.
How have / do you use AI in your comedy? Is it something you’d experiment with? Would you be able to watch a 30 minute special of AI me doing stand up?
Can you foresee a future where AI comedians are repped by human agents, or where comedians long dead, are brought back to life with AI, like what happened with George Carlin’s special? Obviously, AI is still so new to humanity, no one has any idea where this train is going. Many eschew it, because new things can be weird and scary.
But whether you are into using it for your comedy (or anything else) or not, maybe drop a little money into AI stock, just for the fun of it. Chances are you have $38.15 kicking around?
Daily Musings:
Sucks to be these comedians | The Guardian
Tim Heidecker writes normal music | Stereogum
Dan Curry (Eric Andre’s head writer) + Johnny Knoxville’s saga | Daniel’s Subtack
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See you later, alligator, or as my toddler daughter always says, see you, alligator.
