Would you let your family keep an AI version of you after you die?
Summary
A reflective post on the growing ability to recreate a deceased person's voice, writing style, and mannerisms with AI, questioning the ethics of letting families keep a simulated version of a loved one and who should have the right to approve such a digital afterlife.
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