That’s not your dead relative, that’s a robot
The use of AI is foolish. You don’t need to ask a robot a question you could do yourself but that’s the world we find ourselves in. And now, we are doing something that is frankly unforgivable: Promoting the use of AI to bring your “loved ones” back to you.
Former actor and now tech guy Calum Worthy is promoting an app called 2Wai. Basically, it’s an AI app that if you love the environment and human connection, you should avoid. But their latest push with the app is incredibly damaging and upsetting to see. Because someone who is grieving doesn’t need to see a fake computer version of their loved ones!
The ad shows people using the 2Wai app to bring your deceased loved ones into your future. That includes your dead relative meeting your kids, experiencing life events with you, all through a phone. The idea being that you can “FaceTime” them and have a conversation, ignoring in that moment that said individual is no longer with us.
And Worthy is posting about this “breakthrough” in technology and acting as if this is a completely normal thing for us to do.
As someone who often thinks about how my own grandparents and father won’t experience some big life events with me, I think that apps like 2Wai are incredibly dangerous. Not only is AI as a whole dangerous and bad but 2Wai is encouraging people to pretend like their loved ones are meeting their children? It’s weird and gross and detrimental to the grieving process.
Yes, I’d give up anything to talk to my father again but that doesn’t mean we should be doing things like that! My dad isn’t going to talk to my future husband or children through an app. That’s not him. That’s a computer playing pretend and Worthy and 2Wai should be ashamed of themselves for this.
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