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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”...

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Y'all better get used to this shit. It's only a matter of time before the hot girl in class or at work can be your personal onlyFans model. Your going to have a fight with your partner over something your chatbot said to them. People will marry, divorce, and leave inheritances to their chatbots. You will run into your ex out shopping with a version of you.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure which is creepier: someone creating a AI chatbot of a girl who was murdered 18 years ago or Google matching the face in the photo and notifying her father.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure there was a Black Mirror episode about this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Doctor Who recently as well, and Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Stephenson

There's probably a boatload of it in books.

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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 "

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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/

[–] kureta@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

damn dude. I have tears in my eyes.

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 16 points 1 year ago

late stage coomerism

[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Be Right Back"

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

pet sematary.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I'm all for suing the company into the ground on this one. With the abilities of genai to just create images and voices, why else, other than simple intent, would you use someone else's likeness or voice?

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the wildest thing they admit to finding on character.ai is a murdered girl

Wait til someone tells them about chub.ai, then you'll see some real crazy shit.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Monkey Paw!

[–] spicystraw@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is just heartless 🙁