#digitaldeath — Public Fediverse posts

Having a deceased shooting victim give an interview as an AI avatar clearly gets a reaction, but I fear it's not the right one. It's such an important issue, but the novelty of this form of AI 'ghost' eclipses what is actually being said. It also begs some big ethical questions about data personal use!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/04/jim-acosta-parkland-shooting-victim-ai-interview

[Thread ... ] #digitaldeath #generativeAI #privacy #posthomousdata

Having a deceased shooting victim give an interview as an AI avatar clearly gets a reaction, but I fear it's not the right one. It's such an important issue, but the novelty of this form of AI 'ghost' eclipses what is actually being said. It also begs some big ethical questions about data personal use!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/04/jim-acosta-parkland-shooting-victim-ai-interview

[Thread ... ] #digitaldeath #generativeAI #privacy #posthomousdata

Having a deceased shooting victim give an interview as an AI avatar clearly gets a reaction, but I fear it's not the right one. It's such an important issue, but the novelty of this form of AI 'ghost' eclipses what is actually being said. It also begs some big ethical questions about data personal use!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/04/jim-acosta-parkland-shooting-victim-ai-interview

[Thread ... ] #digitaldeath #generativeAI #privacy #posthomousdata

Having a deceased shooting victim give an interview as an AI avatar clearly gets a reaction, but I fear it's not the right one. It's such an important issue, but the novelty of this form of AI 'ghost' eclipses what is actually being said. It also begs some big ethical questions about data personal use!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/04/jim-acosta-parkland-shooting-victim-ai-interview

[Thread ... ] #digitaldeath #generativeAI #privacy #posthomousdata

Having a deceased shooting victim give an interview as an AI avatar clearly gets a reaction, but I fear it's not the right one. It's such an important issue, but the novelty of this form of AI 'ghost' eclipses what is actually being said. It also begs some big ethical questions about data personal use!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/04/jim-acosta-parkland-shooting-victim-ai-interview

[Thread ... ] #digitaldeath #generativeAI #privacy #posthomousdata

Looking forward to reading Edina Harbinja's book Digital Death, Digital Assets and Post-mortem Privacy https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-digital-death-digital-assets-and-post-mortem-privacy.html. So many pressing questions about our posthumous data that need thought though! #digitaldeath

Looking forward to reading Edina Harbinja's book Digital Death, Digital Assets and Post-mortem Privacy https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-digital-death-digital-assets-and-post-mortem-privacy.html. So many pressing questions about our posthumous data that need thought though! #digitaldeath

Looking forward to reading Edina Harbinja's book Digital Death, Digital Assets and Post-mortem Privacy https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-digital-death-digital-assets-and-post-mortem-privacy.html. So many pressing questions about our posthumous data that need thought though! #digitaldeath

Looking forward to reading Edina Harbinja's book Digital Death, Digital Assets and Post-mortem Privacy https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-digital-death-digital-assets-and-post-mortem-privacy.html. So many pressing questions about our posthumous data that need thought though! #digitaldeath

'Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots' https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221147626 is a brilliant & timely paper by Leah Henrickson in Media, Culture & Society which examines an actual example of someone trying to use GPT3 (the technology powering #ChaptGPT) to animate a chatbot of their dead fiancé! #digitaldeath

'Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots' https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221147626 is a brilliant & timely paper by Leah Henrickson in Media, Culture & Society which examines an actual example of someone trying to use GPT3 (the technology powering #ChaptGPT) to animate a chatbot of their dead fiancé! #digitaldeath

'Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots' https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221147626 is a brilliant & timely paper by Leah Henrickson in Media, Culture & Society which examines an actual example of someone trying to use GPT3 (the technology powering #ChaptGPT) to animate a chatbot of their dead fiancé! #digitaldeath

'Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots' https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221147626 is a brilliant & timely paper by Leah Henrickson in Media, Culture & Society which examines an actual example of someone trying to use GPT3 (the technology powering #ChaptGPT) to animate a chatbot of their dead fiancé! #digitaldeath