There's been plenty of controversy over AI deep fake videos and the digital necromancy of dead or aged actors , but how about taking that one step further? The company DeepBrain AI will collect audio and visual recordings of a loved one and then create an interactive AI version of them for you to speak with once they've passed.highlights some new players in"death tech," or the niche of technology startups offering services related to grief and mortality.
Hoo boy, the third one though. DeepBrain AI CFO Michael Jung claims the company's AI likenesses carry a"96.5% similarity of the original person, so mostly the family don't feel uncomfortable talking with the deceased family member." I am dying to know how you quantify the profound and subjective experience of speaking to a loved one within a fraction of a percent.from 2022 made me feel insane."Husband Mr.
The footage of the avatars in action is bizarre too. Watching the two conversations on offer feels profoundly voyeuristic and invasive, but they're also minimally interactive—absent context, I might have assumed these were merely pre-recorded messages, making me question the feasibility of the product. As a lover of games, I'm reminded of those"bullshot" pre-rendered trailers of E3s past that purported to show real gameplay.
Even assuming it works as advertised, I find the concept highly disturbing. The HereafterAI product is an organizational tool, no more controversial to my eye than keeping a loved one's letters or recordings the old fashioned way. DeepBrain AI threatens something else: a slurry of recorded"content" from a loved one shaped into a perverse puppet to manipulate the bereaved to the tune of $50,000.