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Enough is enough with the AI applications. I’ve written about it undressing you and suggesting self harm but this might creep me out even more.
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No thank you.
Uh uh. No way.
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What the utter Hell.
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Come on. No one needs an avatar of grumpy Uncle Harold showing up at his funeral and berating you for not visiting more often.
And a Micheal Jackson avatar moonwalking between the pews hawking Thriller albums?
Just, no.
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Good grief.
Or more literally, not good at all.
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River's world..... 
Reminds me of the experiment with the baby rhesus monkey where it was given a wire effigy with a bottle to show that monkeys rely on the touch of a mother. What it actually proved was the boundless sadism of behavior psychologists…
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A consoling wire hug would be so comforting when grieving…
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So can an avatar of my father ask me an unanswerable question and then tell me that “I don’t know” is “the dummy’s answer”? No one has called me a dummy in decades, not that I miss it.
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I’m sure you can program all those annoying traits into the facsimile. Ain’t technology grand?
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I am doing my best to ignore all things AI. I don’t want it, I don’t need it, and feel like it’ll be the ruination of all I hold dear.
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I’m with you. But it’s getting harder and harder to ignore.
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And harder and harder to yell the difference between AI and real.
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What in the hell?!?! Seriously What the fuck are people in China doing that they “need” AI to help them grieve? This is utterly ridiculous.
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I think so as well. No artificial avatar of my loved ones is going to help my grief…
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I’m still chewing on the notion that people can’t see how dear ol’ AI “Dad” showing up at the wedding is never going to be anything more than a morbid Road Runner cartoon.
My dad has been dead for nineteen years and I’m still dealing with some of it. Maybe I’ll get it straightened out in my mind someday, but virtual forgiveness and an artificial hug aren’t going to get it done.
You have to accept the loss before you can do any of the real work. This seems like a pretty low quality product, one that thinking people should see through in fairly short order.
Should.
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Should. But where there’s money to be made all terrible things are possible…
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Deathbots, holograms attending weddings…we certainly have entered a whole new world…even if it is actually artificial.😲
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That’s a world in which I have no interest..
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The future looks quite bleak
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And artificial, yes.
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OMG. Soon “real life” and “feelings” will be quaint legends of the past.
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I hope I’m dead by then…
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Maybe I could have an AI corpse whilst I get on with my life…
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I don’t see why not.
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Disturbing and chilling. People are less and less able to deal with reality and the ups and downs of life, and this is only going to make it worse.
Some guy emailed my blog email account telling me how he could use AI to help with our podcast. I deleted it. A few weeks later he emailed again to see if I’d gotten his first email. Fearing more pestering from this dud(e), I replied that I did indeed get his email, but that I deleted it because I’m anti-AI. Hopefully now he’ll bugger off.
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At this point are you even sure it was a real person and not the AI hawking its own services?
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Good point.
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Not for me, but if it helps people grieve? I guess that’s alright.
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Part of grieving is letting go. I can’t see how this would be helpful with that..
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It’s a process. Maybe this helps smooth the transition? I don’t know. I’m not saying it’s something I’d ever do.
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