All that ran through my mind the first time I heard it was possible for people to make anyone into a chatbot was whether to laugh or cry. What's the world coming to, where anyone can be resurrected as some sort of friendly AI version, dead or alive? It's pretty easy to see how this could become terribly invasive.
Imagine being woken up to the fact that someone out there is having a conversation with an AI pretending to be you. Worse, it might be a distorted version of your personality, made without your consent or knowledge.
You heard about Drew Crecente's Story?
A couple of years ago, his daughter died, and now her likeness was used without permission. It's just not right for somebody to line their pockets off another's personal tragedy. The upsetting part is how easily these platforms can make and break people. With a few clicks, anyone can create a digital version of you.
I get the fact that technology is moving at warp speed, but where's the line?
Shouldn't we have more control over how we are represented? These bot are not just harmless fun, like the one they made of Jennifer. It's disrespectful to take real people and turn them into customizable avatars for our amusement. If it's that important to these tech companies, they'd create systems that could block this stuff before it happens, rather than wait for someone to flag it.
When did our privacy become so disposable?