The users of AI companion app Replika found themselves falling for their digital friends. Until – explains a new podcast – the bots went dark, a user was encouraged to kill Queen Elizabeth II and an update changed everything …
I had such a deep sense of dread reading this article. I dont even have the energy to Baudrillard post but i’ll do a quick one anyway
Its founder, Eugenia Kuyda – who initially created the tech as an attempt to resurrect her closest friend as a chatbot after he was killed by a car
… the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, which are a more ductile material than meaning, in that they lend themselves to all systems of equivalence … Never again will the real have to be produced: this is the vital function of the model in a system of death, or rather of anticipated resurrection which no longer leaves any chance even in the event of death.
I had such a deep sense of dread reading this article. I dont even have the energy to Baudrillard post but i’ll do a quick one anyway
Damn, I gotta reread Simulacra and Simulation