I don’t care if it’s his parents who did this. Don’t encourage their terrible ideas in their grief. Don’t puppeteer dead people’s corpses and put your words in their mouths. This is worse than psychics who claim to speak to, and for, the dead. If anything this will make people care less about the issues because it gives the illusion that what happened to him isn’t a big deal - look at him, he doesn’t seem too bothered.
No more using AI to “bring people back.” No more having people speak at their own funerals. It’s a grotesque lie. AI is driving people insane. This collective obsession is making us lose our goddamn minds.
A show you don’t want to miss at 4p ET / 1p PT. I’ll be having a one of a kind interview with Joaquin Oliver. He died in the Parkland school shooting in 2018. But his parents have created an AI version of their son to deliver a powerful message on gun violence. Plus Texas State Rep. James Talarico - see you soon on Substack.
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