as bad as i feel and sympathize with the parents, this is actually horrifying and dystopian and i hope everyone involved regrets it.
I'm now imagining a future where private corporations charge people fees to talk to digital imitations of their dead loved ones - a truly cursed vision.
There was a black mirror episode about this where a girl's fiancee dies in a car crash and they sell an AI version of him that she texts and talks to on her phone
If you're thinking of putting words in your dead son's mouth for clout, maybe consider doing anything else.
You don’t need to go shouting it, but if someone starts talking about turning your dead son into an a.i for a political agenda at you, fucking own it. Some coworker is like “turning your dead son into an a.i for a political agenda sucks”, say “yeah I know, I turned my dead son into an a.i for a political agenda”. Your grandpa says “turning your dead son into an a.i for a political agenda rules”, say “no it sucks ass, I turned my dead son into an a.i for a political agenda ”. You’re on a date and they ask if youve ever turned your dead son into an a.i for a political agenda? “Yes, I turned my dead son into an a.i for a political agenda”. Cashier asks would you like change? “Yes, I turned my dead son into an a.i for a political agenda”.
Be open about your turning your dead son into an a.i for a political agenda and lay claim to the existential horror that is your eternal regret. Be a dead son turned into an a.i for a political agenda advocate.
....couldn't they still push a "vote, my son died in a tragedy, vote to keep it from happening to others" type line just as easily WITHOUT this? How does digital necromancy and putting words into a dead kid's mouth improve that?
yes but you see, they could have done that, but they didnt, and its totally fine, because the parents said their dead underage child would have wanted it that way, and now we own their dead child for eternity, no take backsies.
... genuinely looking forward to the imminent court case where one or both of them regrets this, but cant decide which one would be more hilariously dystopian. parent fighting parent over dead child being used as an eternal spokesperson, or parents agreeing they want it to stop, and the court waving the piece of paper they signed in their face and going "you did an oopsie"
Oh, the funniest and most dystopia thing is definitely gonna be when they bring the fucking necrogram (I'm coining this word right now) to testify in court.
"momther. daddorkins. this is what i wanted, my loving parentals whom i love" uncanny valley grin
Holy shit, hellworld is getting cyberpunk on us and that's NOT a good sign.
If my legacy after death was all about electoral politics I'd kill myself
especially over an objectively wrong position like passing gun-control laws.
Listen, I'm all for the working class arming themselves, but lack of gun control in America is fucking insane. Background checks are good. Making sure domestic abusers can't get firearms is good.
Here in Canada, I can count the number of school shootings we've had (ever) on two hands . Our firearm license application process is super fucking easy and simple , and it saves lives.
not when the US police are enforcing them. they will just become one more tool of oppression. US police have been vocal, they will not enforce gun laws against white chuds.
When Sheriffs Say No: Disputes Erupt Over Enforcing New Gun Laws
grandma died today. but thats okay. she'll always be there in my heart, and on my cereal box, and when the back to school sales start, and...
Fuck, this is probably what our information economy is going to turn into, before we kill ourselves off, if we don't manage to transition away from capitalism. All of our data being used to create models of us, which then pitch shit people don't need, to our friends and families.
Son, I know we didn't get to bond much before I passed away from SARS-5, but if I had watched you grow up into the smart and capable man you are today, I would have wanted you to
BUY A BUICK
wot if instead of saying “wanna grab lunch?” Yer mate said “wanna go defrag your hard drive”?
What if the real friends were the fragmented NTFS partitions that we made along the way?
please make sure this doesn't happen to me so my digital AI doppleganger isn't forced to live on for all eternity on the internet
