Submitted 7 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68944898
The “grief tech” firms helping users create talking avatars of their dead relatives.
Automating the closing of accounts and whatnot for the deceased is a good idea. Everything else… not so much. I don’t think many people would want a AI chatbot pretending to be them when they’re gone.
Awful. Just awful. A parent of mine just recently passed away and I miss them every day. I would never do this ghoulish thing.
“Secure your soul.”
You get us a helicopter, I’ll grab the nuke.
Pretty sure this is how Pantheon started
Pretty sure this is how religion started
DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is an episode of Black Mirror