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If an AI simulation of your dead grandmother is indistinguishable from the real thing, is that literally a ghost? (lazysoci.al)

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[-] anon6789@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

Nah, my gram was my favorite person ever, and she lived the life she wanted to live and she chose to leave when she did. She was one of a kind and it would be a cheap, heart-wrenching impersonation to have someone try to bring her back as an algorithm. I think I would be very upset if anyone tried that.

It would not be a ghost of her any more than a biography is a ghost of someone. It could look and sound similar, it could have a lot of her memories or speech patterns, but that's all an interpretation of memories of her, but nothing of the lady herself.

[-] presoak@lazysoci.al -1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Ok. That's reasonable.

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