{"id":14843,"date":"2024-06-14T15:38:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T13:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/14\/i-felt-i-was-talking-to-him-are-ai-personas-of-the-dead-a-blessing-or-a-curse\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T15:38:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T13:38:25","slug":"i-felt-i-was-talking-to-him-are-ai-personas-of-the-dead-a-blessing-or-a-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/14\/i-felt-i-was-talking-to-him-are-ai-personas-of-the-dead-a-blessing-or-a-curse\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I felt I was talking to him\u2019: are AI personas of the dead a blessing or a curse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As growing numbers of people turn to grieftech, some are disturbed by its possible consequences<\/p>\n<p>When Christi Angel first talked to a chatbot impersonating her deceased partner, Cameroun, she found the encounter surreal and \u201cvery weird\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I knew it was an AI system but, once I started chatting, my feeling was I was talking to Cameroun. That\u2019s how real it felt to me,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/article\/2024\/jun\/14\/i-felt-i-was-talking-to-him-are-ai-personas-of-the-dead-a-blessing-or-a-curse\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/be3816f76906c716c6ed1973300c8076f2d12955\/500_0_15000_9000\/master\/15000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d3e2acb0029de2ba56fd31121440d392\" title=\"\u2018I felt I was talking to him\u2019: are AI personas of the dead a blessing or a curse?\" \/>As growing numbers of people turn to grieftech, some are disturbed by its possible consequences<br \/>\nWhen Christi Angel first talked to a chatbot impersonating her deceased partner, Cameroun, she found the encounter surreal and \u201cvery weird\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cYes, I knew it was an AI system but, once I started chatting, my feeling was I was talking to Cameroun. That\u2019s how real it felt to me,\u201d she says. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As growing numbers of people turn to grieftech, some are disturbed by its possible consequences When Christi Angel first talked to a chatbot impersonating her deceased partner, Cameroun, she found the encounter surreal and \u201cvery weird\u201d. \u201cYes, I knew it was an AI system but, once I started chatting, my feeling was I was talking &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/14\/i-felt-i-was-talking-to-him-are-ai-personas-of-the-dead-a-blessing-or-a-curse\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I felt I was talking to him\u2019: are AI personas of the dead a blessing or a curse?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14843"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}