If someone wants an AI companion, fine. If it’s a crazy good one, fine.
But it’s strictly predatory for it to be designed to make someone feel like it’s someone else who was a real person, ESPECIALLY someone dealing with that type of grief.
You had to boot the mom out of the painting. There was no ambiguity on that one.
I’d be cool with it IFF it was a strong AI that could be free, like Alan Watts in the film Her.
If someone wants an AI companion, fine. If it’s a crazy good one, fine.
But it’s strictly predatory for it to be designed to make someone feel like it’s someone else who was a real person, ESPECIALLY someone dealing with that type of grief.
You had to boot the mom out of the painting. There was no ambiguity on that one.