#griefbots

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If you think AI chatbots of the dead are weird, wait until you hear about digital hauntings. Click to read the full fact.

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Forget Seances

7/29/24

Those missing a loved one who has passed away can take heart.  Now, with AI technology you can talk with a virtual bot made to look and sound just like them.

The companies Silicone Intelligence and Super Brain already offer this service.  Both rely on generative AI, including large language models like ChatGPT, to sift through text, photos, audio recordings, video, and other data snippets.  The companies can create digital “ghosts” of the dead with this information. 

Such digital replicas – sometimes called a “griefbot” - can create the illusion that a dead person is still alive to connect and converse with his/her loved ones via audio and video – and no doubt in the future by a hologram.

Surely, many widows would prefer to have a griefbot of their husband compared to finding a real live man to take his place.  Some mature women might even decide their husbands are too much bother to take care, put them out of her misery, and get a griefbot.

Scary thought actually.