AI Recreates Interactive Dead Relatives and Friends

[FlyersFan]

I had a relative send me a message from the beyond.   I'll stick with that.

Now that you brought it up ... I wanna' hear about it.

[putnam6]

Agree fully.  People need to understand this is not their loved one they're communicating with.

Wonder what the business model is, do apps like this have fees as well?  Or is it about gathering personal and family info i.e. social media?

Its no doubt a long questionnaire so they can hit the bullet points in a conversation, no different than doing an AI avatar to voice your podcast or vlogs, have thought about using it for sales presentations but its still too clunky now if I could do i good AI of a mixture of our salespeople....

[Halfswede]

It's complete dysfunction in every way. It's one thing to being back a famous icon for a silly commercial or something, but it is completely twisted to use it in a serious way. I have to admit Steve Irwin doing 'ceiling birds' seemed a proper use.

[Maxmars]

I will admit up front...

I would not "enjoy" recreating an animated image of my 'dearly departed' only
to endure the pain of the need for an illusion.

It might be a curiosity and for some a pleasure...
I can almost guarantee deep longing and regrets...


To each their own, I guess...

Sometimes grieving engenders comfort...
to see my love smiling a synthetic smile would
somehow offend me.

[argentus]

I will admit up front...

I would not "enjoy" recreating an animated image of my 'dearly departed' only
to endure the pain of the need for an illusion.

It might be a curiosity and for some a pleasure...
I can almost guarantee deep longing and regrets...


To each their own, I guess...

Sometimes grieving engenders comfort...
to see my love smiling a synthetic smile would
somehow offend me.

I think AI is coming to get us.  You   be you.  I will   be me.

[rickymouse]

Sounds a little creepy to me.  I'll pass on this kind of stuff.  Someone who is a little off might believe what AI says to them and be more apt to do something bad.

[Roma]

Bad thing?  This is flat out wrong!  How is anyone supposed to get closure when they can have AI recreate the person (or persona) of a lost loved one?  IMHO this would flip the grieving process upside down.

Like @DontTreadOnMe said, I'll stick with a message from the beyond.  I lost my sister 20 years ago.  I don't need an AI version of her.

[Maxmars]

Truly, the idea that it is even possible to create a "facsimile" of a loved one, isn't, in and of itself
unnatural or twisted... we do it many in many ways.

I suppose 'doing it" isn't  the root of any dysfunction, it's the intent, or motivations that is somewhat 
difficult to explain.  The motivation, we would hope, would not to be to confuse reality with fantasy.

But if it is to replace the real things, to fill a void.... well... it needs consideration.

A departed one... is departed, no longer here...
and the image you create with this service is JUST an image...
animated or not.

Wisdom seems to inform us that loving an image is dangerously wrong.

[Paynful]

New AI App .... 

A company takes pictures of your dead relatives or friends, makes them come 'alive', and interjects AI with loaded shared memories and I would assume some sort of personality.   You go to the app and talk to the dead relative or friend as if they were alive.

I can understand the attraction, but I'm thinking this really is NOT a mentally healthy thing to do.   It's not really them.   It interferes with the grief process.  No matter how painful the grief process is, it's something that needs to be worked through.

Story Here

Not healthy at all. With the obsessive nature of humans and the way the world is going right now, not a good idea. 

AI is beyond scary at this point. Has anyone watched a damn sci-fi movie/show?

[Roma]

Not healthy at all. With the obsessive nature of humans and the way the world is going right now, not a good idea. 

AI is beyond scary at this point. Has anyone watched a damn sci-fi movie/show?

AI in and of itself isn't all that scary (until it becomes self aware).  The human applications of AI are becoming despicable.