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Capturing Essence With AI Death Technology
Meta's New Digital Afterlife for the Dead and the Aging Challenge.
When my mother was in the final stages of dementia, I rarely took photographs or videos of her because I didn’t want to document the evidence of her living with dementia. Documenting her demise was something I struggled with as an artist-photographer who was used to taking and sharing images daily.
The thought of losing her forever made me obsessed with capturing her essence. But what is essence? Words like soul, aura, air, and core are familiar terms when describing that unique trait that a loved one has. For my mother, it was her laugh and the cheeky and mischievous look she gave. Dementia never robbed this essence from her, and one could be fooled that she wasn’t suffering from this debilitating illness at all.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse platform could change how we communicate with our deceased loved ones. Death and the digital afterlife will prove to be a lucrative venture for Zuckerberg because it is predicted that Facebook will have more dead people than alive by 2100, an incredible 4.9 billion. Providing a fee-based service that can communicate with these dead is a savvy business decision.
Mindbank Ai creates a digital twin from the information users feed into the platform with a chat interface and learning algorithms.
Research on the ethics of deathbots suggests that there are pros and cons to using AI griefbots to support the grieving process. I would add that how we deal with grief is different for everyone and depends on how the deceased died, our relationship with the deceased, and our own coping mechanisms. Generative AI tools for creatives describe the technology as a collaborative tool and this term is well suited to describe how AI bots will be used for people with mental health issues that include grief.
What if this data is found online and copied and used for something else you have no control over? It doesn’t matter for those who are dead, but it will cause a lot of heartache for the family members left behind.
Ginger Liu is the founder of Hollywood’s Ginger Media & Entertainment, a Ph.D. Researcher in artificial intelligence and visual arts media — grief tech, digital afterlife, AI, death and mourning practices, AI and photography, biometrics, security, and policy, and an author, writer, artist photographer, and filmmaker. Listen to the Podcast — The Digital Afterlife of Grief.
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By Ginger LiuMeta's New Digital Afterlife for the Dead and the Aging Challenge.
When my mother was in the final stages of dementia, I rarely took photographs or videos of her because I didn’t want to document the evidence of her living with dementia. Documenting her demise was something I struggled with as an artist-photographer who was used to taking and sharing images daily.
The thought of losing her forever made me obsessed with capturing her essence. But what is essence? Words like soul, aura, air, and core are familiar terms when describing that unique trait that a loved one has. For my mother, it was her laugh and the cheeky and mischievous look she gave. Dementia never robbed this essence from her, and one could be fooled that she wasn’t suffering from this debilitating illness at all.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse platform could change how we communicate with our deceased loved ones. Death and the digital afterlife will prove to be a lucrative venture for Zuckerberg because it is predicted that Facebook will have more dead people than alive by 2100, an incredible 4.9 billion. Providing a fee-based service that can communicate with these dead is a savvy business decision.
Mindbank Ai creates a digital twin from the information users feed into the platform with a chat interface and learning algorithms.
Research on the ethics of deathbots suggests that there are pros and cons to using AI griefbots to support the grieving process. I would add that how we deal with grief is different for everyone and depends on how the deceased died, our relationship with the deceased, and our own coping mechanisms. Generative AI tools for creatives describe the technology as a collaborative tool and this term is well suited to describe how AI bots will be used for people with mental health issues that include grief.
What if this data is found online and copied and used for something else you have no control over? It doesn’t matter for those who are dead, but it will cause a lot of heartache for the family members left behind.
Ginger Liu is the founder of Hollywood’s Ginger Media & Entertainment, a Ph.D. Researcher in artificial intelligence and visual arts media — grief tech, digital afterlife, AI, death and mourning practices, AI and photography, biometrics, security, and policy, and an author, writer, artist photographer, and filmmaker. Listen to the Podcast — The Digital Afterlife of Grief.