AI demons as avatars,
Eduardo 5-14-24
"Deepfakes of your dead loved ones are a booming Chinese business"
"There
are plenty of people like Sun who want to use AI to preserve, animate,
and interact with lost loved ones as they mourn and try to heal. The
market is particularly strong in China, where at least half a dozen
companies are now offering such technologies and
thousands of people have already paid for them. In fact, the avatars
are the newest manifestation of a cultural tradition: Chinese people
have always taken solace from confiding in the dead. "
From
the land where demons steal the image of dead people and are worshiped
by their relatives in shrines as the spirits of their ancestors. Now the
process can be a little more straight forward and agnostic. I wonder
how long will it take for the AI to start reproducing the stolen
memories of the loved ones, since it's getting permission to impersonate
them.