>Using collected text messages and AI, a programmer has created a
>chatbot that talks like her fallen friend.
>
>It isn't quite a personality ROM, but it's startlingly close. A while ago, I saw a retweet of an ad for some startup that offers this service commercially. The tagline on it was something flesh-crawlingly awful like "Ever wish you'd had one last conversation? Now you can!" Brrrr. No thank you.
I also recently saw a news article about some outfit in... the UK, I think?... that uses machine-learning-assisted image manipulation to create--get ready for this--fake photos showing the life terminally ill people aren't going to have. Like "this is what it would look like if you were going to live long enough to get married, have kids, take that trip to Rome, retire and grow old, all that kinda stuff." Jesus. I would fucking stab someone who did that to me.
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