China has a flourishing market for deepfakes that clone the dead
www.technologyreview.com
The same technologies are being used by Chinese people to make replicas of themselves, their children, and famous public figures.
    • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Depending on how it’s implemented, it might very well be one of the non-creepy uses. As long as it isn’t taken to extremes, being able to have a chance to say goodbye to your loved one could be therapeutic. Or to see them once a year during the Ghost Festival to help keep their memory alive.

    • electric_nan@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      6 months ago

      It does have high creepy potential (all deepfakes do), but I can understand the appeal. Make sure you take some nice videos of the people you love, and let them take some of you. Death doesn’t always come with a warning, and you don’t want to be wishing you had some recordings.

  • Lugh@futurology.todayMEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    I wonder how long it will be before we see people purposely create these so they can influence their descendants. There might be a future where people have “relationships” with a collection of long dead people.

    • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      It’ll be fun seeing LLMs have control over whether or not descendants get access to the family trust fund…

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        6 months ago

        AIs controlling money is the application that scares me the most, honestly, not weapons. It’s flexible and attached to every section of life by design; there is no such thing as sandboxing.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    12·
    6 months ago

    If there is one thing the Chinese government does well it is law enforcement. If you make a deep fake that isn’t in line with the public narrative you disappear.