Tama LeaverAug 5, 2025

Having a deceased shooting victim give an interview as an AI avatar clearly gets a reaction, but I fear it's not the right one. It's such an important issue, but the novelty of this form of AI 'ghost' eclipses what is actually being said. It also begs some big ethical questions about data personal use!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/04/jim-acosta-parkland-shooting-victim-ai-interview

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Jim Acosta interviews ‘made-up’ AI avatar of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver

Artificially generated video of Oliver, one of 17 victims of the shooting, addresses Acosta in ‘one of a kind interview’

The Guardian
tamaleaverJan 25, 2023
Looking forward to reading Edina Harbinja's book Digital Death, Digital Assets and Post-mortem Privacy https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-digital-death-digital-assets-and-post-mortem-privacy.html. So many pressing questions about our posthumous data that need thought though! #digitaldeath
Digital Death, Digital Assets and Post-mortem Privacy

Digital Death, Digital Assets and Post-mortem Privacy

Edinburgh University Press Books
tamaleaverJan 25, 2023
'Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots' https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221147626 is a brilliant & timely paper by Leah Henrickson in Media, Culture & Society which examines an actual example of someone trying to use GPT3 (the technology powering #ChaptGPT) to animate a chatbot of their dead fiancé! #digitaldeath
Carmilla On Line - Rss BotJun 25, 2019
Nemico (e) immaginario. La morte, l’oblio e lo spettro digitale https://www.carmillaonline.com/2019/06/18/nemico-e-immaginario-la-morte-loblio-e-lo-spettro-digitale/ #Nemico(e)immaginario #AlessandraSantoro #AntonioTramontana #tecnocapitalismo #culturadigitale #FaustoLammoglia #SelenaPastorino #spettrodigitale #CharlieBrooker #GioacchinoToni #transumanesimo #DigitalDeath #BlackMirror #MarioTirino #Recensioni #post-umano #Cinema&tv #coscienza #esistenza #Eterni.me #incarnato #cervello #Distopia
Nemico (e) immaginario. La morte, l’oblio e lo spettro digitale

di Gioacchino Toni Il sopraggiungere della morte comporta per ogni essere umano un, più o [...]

Carmilla on line
Carmilla On Line - Rss BotJun 18, 2019
Nemico (e) immaginario. La morte, l’oblio e lo spettro digitale https://www.carmillaonline.com/2019/06/18/nemico-e-immaginario-la-morte-loblio-e-lo-spettro-digitale/ #Nemico(e)immaginario #AlessandraSantoro #AntonioTramontana #tecnocapitalismo #culturadigitale #FaustoLammoglia #SelenaPastorino #spettrodigitale #CharlieBrooker #GioacchinoToni #transumanesimo #DigitalDeath #BlackMirror #MarioTirino #Recensioni #post-umano #Cinema&tv #coscienza #esistenza #Eterni.me #incarnato #cervello #Distopia
Nemico (e) immaginario. La morte, l’oblio e lo spettro digitale

di Gioacchino Toni Il sopraggiungere della morte comporta per ogni essere umano un, più o [...]

Carmilla on line
Boing BoingAug 18, 2018
Criminals have perfected the art of taking over dead peoples' online accounts https://boingboing.net/2018/08/18/end-of-lifing.html #internetofthedead #identitytheft #digitaldeath #happymutants #security #infosec #youtube #videos #Video #uk
Criminals have perfected the art of taking over dead peoples' online accounts

Criminals have perfected the art of taking over dead peoples' online accounts

Boing Boing