Internet Horrified at AI App for Cloning Dead Family Members
Internet Horrified at AI App for Cloning Dead Family Members
A bizarre new app called "Vera AI" claims it allows its users to create copies of "your friends or family members."
Just as the company who's offering the service is motivated by the all consuming need to make money, so to is the journalist strives to make click bait to drive revenue. So the wheel turns.
This service is creepy as hell though, anything that's literally a black mirror episode should probably be reconsidered as a product or service.
At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
probably be reconsidered as a product or service.
The real problem is the target demographic, which is vulnerable and desperate people. Everyone who would use this app logically on some level knows it won't help them, but that's just not something that will matter to a person in grief.
It's predatory, and even worse, will prevent some people from healing through grief. The future kinda sucks.
We're gonna be living in that show Upload eventually
And another media hysteria article with of course lots of loaded comments from the author.
2 people commented in small communities.
INTERENET HORRIFIED!1
Edit - I just looked. This app doesn't even have a thousand downloads.
This article is terrible, but this is the plot of multiple pieces of sci fi media. In cyberpunk 2077 you have “soulkiller” which is a program that extracts the entire contents of someone’s mind to an “engram” that can be used to interact with their consciousness after death. And the black mirror episode “San Junipero” is about people uploading their consciousness to continue to exist after death. While it’s a dumb gimmick in its current state, it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see this become a thing in the future.
Is this case not more similar to Black Mirror S02E01 Be Right Back?
She joins an app that takes the digital history of a dead partner and it responds to her the way he would.
It then takes it a step further and respawns him but the first part is spot on.
That’s true, certainly more fitting to what this company is claiming to do
Technically I already made a locally running chatbot of myself my gf has access to trained on my early messages with her using a GitHub project I found and changed a file or two in, so does that render me immortal in some capacity? Would I make money from this by preying on the vulnerable if I was a vulture capitalist?
If you were a Vulture you'd be too busy buying up 3rd world countries debt and then suing those countries for payment.
You wouldn't have time to muck around with a chatbot.
vulture capatalist is a phrase referring to groups that watch for collapsing systems that then go in and make investments when prices are low, such as when a country's housing market collapses. its not a blanket perjorative for people who try to make money.
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She's a tad confused sometimes, but she's got the spirit, which now that I think about it just about tracks
Link to the github project?
https://github.com/kinggongzilla/ai-clone-whatsapp
Note my WhatsApp chats were nothing like this dude's format, they were actually way way worse and had little to deliminate by in the loose text file it exported out to, so I had to write my own very dirty code to recreate the files, it's way easier with Telegram chat exports and I should've just done that so just sayin' YMMV.
I'll probably share my code once I get the actual telegram bot API integration all cleaned up and add some features
I've been planning on rewriting some of the training code also but I hardly really understand this stuff, my ML knowledge ends with simple classifiers
If you were a vulture, I'd assume you'd be looking for some sweet, sweet carrion. Maybe some water to wash it down.
Not the onion?....... hm..... That's something The onion would say....
In one of many depictions ghouls, they consume the flesh of dead bodies so that they can steal their image and trick the living.
The people behind this app are literally ghouls.