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this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2025
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I saw a video of a ~~woman in China~~ (Edit: actually she was Korean) talking to an AI recreation of her child (then-deceased) through VR.
I felt so creeped out by it. Like wtf, if I die, I want my mom to remember me, not talking to a fucking AI IMPOSTER.
Edit: Looked it up, actually it's a Korean woman, I mixed it up: https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeCry/comments/12zkqy8/mother_meets_deceased_daughter_through_vr/
There's a whole company/llm about doing that whose CEO gave a Ted talk about it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-w4JrIxFZRA
After that, I actually had a pretty wild idea about someone using to replace dead/missing people in chats. Imagine the horror of finding out your friend died months ago, or got kidnapped. Horribly impractical but sounds like a good novel.
"watch me talk about how I get rich of off exploiting people's emotional fragilities and try to pass it as providing closure and community service"
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.