Drew Crecente last spoke to his daughter Jennifer Ann Crecente on February 14, 2006. A day later, Jennifer, a senior in high school who was in an abusive relationship, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, who was later convicted and is serving time in prison. That year, Crescente started a nonprofit in her name to prevent teen dating violence and now routinely monitors any piece of media coverage related to her.
But he was appalled when he received a Google Alert notification at 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday that somebody had created a chatbot on popular AI platform Character AI using his daughter’s yearbook photo and name.
“A grieving father should not have to find out that his dead daughter is being used to try and make money as a chatbot on some website,” he told Forbes. “It shocks the conscience, and it’s unacceptable behavior”…
That’s horrifying. Assuming identities without permission is going to continue to be a problem going forward.
On the same note, how cool would it be to train a LLM on everything you know and you’re speech patterns and how you feel about things so that descendants could have a somewhat informed conversation with you.
Pretty sure there was a Black Mirror episode about this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
Doctor Who recently as well, and Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Stephenson
There’s probably a boatload of it in books.
There are already causes of action for this sort of thing - we do not need to try and come up with something new.
Because lawyers are fucking tech stupid and that’s who will be making the decisions.
Would it be trouble to ask you to clarify?
I can’t wrap my head around "There are already causes of action for this sort of thing "
Have you read this article yet (warning: long and sad)? The AI used was the private GPT-3 Beta in mid-2021, almost 1.5 years before ChatGPT was launched.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation-artificial-intelligence/
damn dude. I have tears in my eyes.
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