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web_rant
@webrant.bsky.social

FUN FACT: It's NOT about "making grief obsolete." But it IS about manipulating you with mental illness for more oligarch control. bsky.app/profile/thea...

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com

AI “deadbots” aim to replace the dead—and raise plenty of ethical issues, Charley Burlock argues. “Perhaps the biggest question is how such a product might shift our experience of personal grief and collective memory.”

bit.lyThe AI Companies Trying to Make Grief ObsoleteYou can buy an AI version of your lost loved one. But should you?
Ruth’s Chris Haunted House
@atomicgiant.bsky.social

I get that everybody grieves differently, and if this helps someone in pain, it’s not my place to say otherwise. But it seems like a quick fix w potential long-term harm & the tech isn’t trying to ease but to circumvent pain that’s an essential part of being human. The pain is the cost of love.

Miguel
@canarymiguel.bsky.social

Most tech companies sole aim is to keep you looking at their app/ai slop, etc.. It’s all about harvesting your time. (He says whilst on an app)

John Roscoe
@johnroscoe.bsky.social

Goodness, how far* we've come. *actually not very far

John Roscoe@johnroscoe.bsky.social

So no, that's not your Grandmother and you can't talk to her because she's dead BUT suppose you don't talk to your Grandmother AND AT THE SAME TIME burn up a shit ton of water, destroying the atmosphere while making a handful of raving loony mega wealthy fashy dooshes EVEN WEALTHIER while you don't?

Pebble
@cloacadentata.bsky.social

I can't wait for advertising firms to scrape the likenesses of the dead to serve us personalized ads featuring our passed loved ones trying to sell us shit

professoraxeman
@axeeugene.bsky.social

You'd have to be a machine to believe AI versions of dead loved ones would stave off grief. These people aren't just criminally stupid; they're also utterly soulless. I mean that - if heaven exists, they'll never see it.