• 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    3 hours ago

    I saw a video of a woman in China (Edit: actually she was Korean) talking to an AI recreation of her child (then-deceased) through VR.

    I felt so creeped out by it. Like wtf, if I die, I want my mom to remember me, not talking to a fucking AI IMPOSTER.

    Edit: Looked it up, actually it’s a Korean woman, I mixed it up: https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeCry/comments/12zkqy8/mother_meets_deceased_daughter_through_vr/

    • Datz@szmer.infoEnglish
      1·
      50 minutes ago

      There’s a whole company/llm about doing that whose CEO gave a Ted talk about it.

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-w4JrIxFZRA

      After that, I actually had a pretty wild idea about someone using to replace dead/missing people in chats. Imagine the horror of finding out your friend died months ago, or got kidnapped. Horribly impractical but sounds like a good novel.

      • Windex007@lemmy.world
        121·
        2 hours ago

        If someone wants an AI companion, fine. If it’s a crazy good one, fine.

        But it’s strictly predatory for it to be designed to make someone feel like it’s someone else who was a real person, ESPECIALLY someone dealing with that type of grief.

        You had to boot the mom out of the painting. There was no ambiguity on that one.

        • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.org
          5·
          2 hours ago

          I mean… gestures wildly at other Black Mirror episodes …yes?

          And I always considered dystopian tales to be meant as a warning, not as a blueprint…

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      How did they come up with such an odd company name? It’s like this copy of the promotional video was ripped off from the original and replaced with the name of the knock off.

      —

      2wai (pronounced “two-way”)

      ah-hum

      • Sludgehammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        29·
        5 hours ago

        Well I mean it doesn’t. If the program ever comes out it’ll probably just be a generic LLM with a few custom prompts for each customer (if that).

        Also, I can’t imagine anyone who was actually close to someone being willing to actually use something this ghoulish. So they won’t find it suspicious if grandma starts saying the secret ingredient in her pizza sauce was glue or that you should feed baby Charlie one small rock a day.

        • cm0002@libretechni.caOPEnglish
          17·
          4 hours ago

          Also, I can’t imagine anyone who was actually close to someone being willing to actually use something this ghoulish.

          Grief is a hell of a drug, someone who’s just lost someone close to them might be willing to do a lot of things for just one more day, hour, minute with them

          • smh@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            1 minute ago

            I’m 4 years out from losing my dad. Can confirm: one of the most upsetting things is knowing I’m unlikely to make new memories of him.

            (Unlikely but not unable: his frat brother told last year me about how they used get together in Dad’s room, smoke pot, and play tabletop RPGs. I… I knew about the tabletop games but not the marijuana.)

            • Dave@lemmy.nz
              3·
              1 hour ago

              Grandma, can you tell me that story you used to tell me as a kid?

              Sure, once upon a time, Goldilocks was walking through a Rayonier™ sustainable forest, when she came across a Turner Construction™ subdivision with a Toll Brothers® cottage.

              She went inside and found three delicious bowls of Quaker™ porridge on the table. The first was delicious but too hot, the second was delicious but too cold, and being her favourite brand of porridge she tried the third bowl and it was perfect. She washed it down with a cold glass of Alta Dena™ 2% milk, a perfect combination.

              …

              I could keep going but it’s scaring me.

      • Dagnet@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 hours ago

        Could have ingested an online diary maybe? Would involve her having to type everything though

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      23·
      3 hours ago

      Warning: don’t click on this link if you don’t want to be visibly upset in public

      Tap for spoiler

      It’s recreating a dead mom with AI

  • zbyte64@awful.systems
    5·
    3 hours ago

    I am seeing ads where businesses will try to influence AI to recommend your brand. I don’t know if they actually work but it strikes me as everything we hate about SEO but shoved into every facet and interface that a capitalist owns.