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I think I mean like in a movie.
A trope now is a widow looking at someone who passed with some longing. We’re starting to see more stories about the “AI afterlife” industry. I don’t think it’s long before movies or shows incorporate this hellscape we live into the plot.
It's pretty close to the plot of Upload, where people choose to upload their personality into a hologram, so they can exist forever. I think. Its been awhile since I watched it.
Closer to a plot of one of the black mirror episodes.
Upload is more like the digital afterlife stores full memories and people, not echoes of people
Yeah the future is now: there's an entire subreddit devoted to deepfaking porn videos of dead women (and it has been around for years! What a great website!)
This should not have surprised me after all these years, but it did. The internet was a mistake
You should probably take solace from the fact that there's still depths of depravity of which you are unaware!
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I remember when the Internet first came along, and everybody was so excited about the future potential for the improvement of mankind, and I just kept thinking:
"Have you ever met any People? This going to get really bad."
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Oh geez… I haven’t been to Reddit in a few years. Having that be the draw or main aspect of the subreddit just seems really weird.
I can see this being more prominent the closer someone was to their peak, like someone who passed in their 20s or 30s. It’s a sad outcome of our times.
From what I remember it was mostly a control-over-their-body thing. "Ha, I can make porn of you and you can't stop me" sorta deal. Deeply horrible, though I did just check and it looks like it's either been taken down or I can't find it, so there's that...!
There’s plenty of places catering to that main version like you said. It’s been possible to do this video editing for decades, but the speed and customization feels like it’ll fuck society in unique and horrible ways. You can take a few banal photos & generate hardcore porn.
I’m not a big fan of making shit illegal, but it feels like there should be some consequences to generating this content without consent, especially when distributed. You could turn someone into a porn star with enough time & effort.
I've been swayed towards advocating that people should automatically hold the copyright over images of their own appearance - by no means a great solution, but it would work to combat the vast majority of extreme creep behavior until we can figure out something better
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Google: How do I delete someone else’s post on lemmy?
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this is somehow worse than Black Mirror: Be Right Back
I heard the meme at the end.
Not just that. They'll offer services where you can text and talk with them and they will mimic the deceased vocabulary, voice, and tone. All for a very reasonable, and predatory, subscription fee structure.
Not your weights, not your wifu. Self host your dead relatives.
"Erm... all that data you uploaded belongs to us now... your dead loved one is wholly owned by the corporation. Pay up or lose them again."
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Wasn't there a black mirror episode or something like this
Season 2, episode 1, Be Right Back.
Okay, but don't forget to let us know which episode it was!
Is it porn the deceased spouse created or is it porn the widow created with the deceased husband's likeness? And which would indeed be sadder?
If I was painting the scene, it’s probably a dude who loses his wife in her 30s. He went out to a date to try and rebound, but no dice. He comes home, looks at a photo, then generates the porn. But he starts crying in the middle & doesn’t finish.
I’m thinking about it as pretty sad.
If you want to make it a comedy, the generation gets all AI weird towards the end, and he freaks out and throws the VR headset off.
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My first thought was some kind of advanced spam blackmailing TBH
The issue of giving people ways to avoid grieving and letting go of their loved ones popped up a number of years ago when places started offering clones of your deceased pet. Even that isn't a good idea, and not fair at all to the animal. But it's not good for the mental well being of the person. Death is part of life, and pretending someone is still here is not healthy.
I agree. I’ve been watching the AI afterlife industry coming online, and it feels really bizarre. One aspect is replicating a loved one in text or audio.
However, AI porn from banal photos will be a problem. It feels a little like Pandora’s box, and I don’t think the public knows how bad the problem will be. The public has been uploading photos & videos of themselves for years. It’s not trivial to make deepfakes, but it will, sooner than most people think.
And with that comes the combination of these things. A grieving loved one, maybe watching on VR, with generated porn from someone the passed. It feels like some messed up cyberpunk necrophilia, but I can see someone doing it too.
Considering that my grief towards deceased pets is for their loss (i.e. they no longer get to experience life), cloning is not only ineffective but outright disrespectful.
A cloned pet doesn't continue that animal's consciousness. It's just breeding a "replacement". And it not only deprives a shelter pet of a potential home, but the cloning process itself is unethical: (see reason 2 and 3) https://www.dailypaws.com/living-with-pets/pet-owner-relationship/pet-cloning
If I had $35K (per linked article) to burn for cloning my deceased cat, I could instead provide lifetime care for an adopted cat and still leave a 5-digit donation to shelters, rescue groups, or spay/neuter surgeries. This would be a more fitting tribute.
Just checking: do we have a source on this? Or is this like accepting death by tuberculosis: we've romanticized a bad time.
A source about grieving and acceptance vs. refusal to acknowledge a death? Realizing that people and things die isn't romancing anything, it's being realistic instead of pretending nothing happened or that they're "back" from the dead.
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Do I now have to be offended if my partner doesn't want to watch porn of me after I'm dead?
Certainly not in any big budget mainstream movie there won't be, because the LLMs used to generate script prompts for the LLMs used to generate visuals and audio clips wouldn't understand why a human using an AI to fake a human interaction because they're soul-crushingly lonely would be sad.
Honestly, it might even be generated as a "happy" scene, to show a "normal" life in the future as product placement for the AI companies as they try to exploit fomo to dig their way out of their inevitable fifty trillion dollar income deficits
Wow, I'm genuinely not excited for or interested in the future at all. Oh.
The scene is only sad if you make it sad.
How is this any sadder than just closing your eyes and thinking really hard while you crank one out
The future? This has already happened.
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