{"id":14983,"date":"2024-06-30T10:38:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T08:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/30\/eternal-you-review-thought-provoking-look-at-new-ai-product-for-the-grieving\/"},"modified":"2024-06-30T10:38:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T08:38:18","slug":"eternal-you-review-thought-provoking-look-at-new-ai-product-for-the-grieving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/30\/eternal-you-review-thought-provoking-look-at-new-ai-product-for-the-grieving\/","title":{"rendered":"Eternal You review \u2013 thought-provoking look at new AI product for the grieving"},"content":{"rendered":"

A disturbing documentary explores tech\u2019s questionable ability to bring digital \u2018comfort\u2019 to the bereaved<\/p>\n

Death is a booming business. For one thing, it\u2019s inevitable. For another, it brings a uniquely vulnerable and receptive market for any product that promises to numb the grief. Enter artificial intelligence. This thought-provoking and bang-up-to-the-minute documentary explores a morally questionable use of AI: the digital afterlife business, tech that recreates the personality (and in some cases speaking voice and even the likeness) of deceased individuals, designed to offer \u201ccomfort\u201d to the bereaved. It\u2019s the kind of technology that exists on the knife-edge between thrilling innovation and cynical recklessness. We meet a mother from South Korea who is introduced to an avatar of her daughter through a VR headset; a woman whose \u201cchats\u201d with her late boyfriend take on an unsettlingly demonic quality when the AI tells her that he\u2019s \u201cin hell\u201d and threatens to haunt her. These posthumous AI avatars are, one interviewee says, simultaneously a precision-tooled product and also the perfect salesperson for that product. It\u2019s hard not to watch this without a mounting sense of dread and a suspicion that a fairly significant Rubicon has been crossed.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In UK and Irish cinemas now<\/p>\n

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\nA disturbing documentary explores tech\u2019s questionable ability to bring digital \u2018comfort\u2019 to the bereaved
\nDeath is a booming business. For one thing, it\u2019s inevitable. For another, it brings a uniquely vulnerable and receptive market for any product that promises to numb the grief. Enter artificial intelligence. This thought-provoking and bang-up-to-the-minute documentary explores a morally questionable use of AI: the digital afterlife business, tech that recreates the personality (and in some cases speaking voice and even the likeness) of deceased individuals, designed to offer \u201ccomfort\u201d to the bereaved. It\u2019s the kind of technology that exists on the knife-edge between thrilling innovation and cynical recklessness. We meet a mother from South Korea who is introduced to an avatar of her daughter through a VR headset; a woman whose \u201cchats\u201d with her late boyfriend take on an unsettlingly demonic quality when the AI tells her that he\u2019s \u201cin hell\u201d and threatens to haunt her. These posthumous AI avatars are, one interviewee says, simultaneously a precision-tooled product and also the perfect salesperson for that product. It\u2019s hard not to watch this without a mounting sense of dread and a suspicion that a fairly significant Rubicon has been crossed.
\n\u2022 In UK and Irish cinemas now Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A disturbing documentary explores tech\u2019s questionable ability to bring digital \u2018comfort\u2019 to the bereaved Death is a booming business. For one thing, it\u2019s inevitable. For another, it brings a uniquely vulnerable and receptive market for any product that promises to numb the grief. Enter artificial intelligence. This thought-provoking and bang-up-to-the-minute documentary explores a morally questionable …<\/p>\n

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