Post ATaCgNfOdTkBSKXiaW by Nickbin@kolektiva.social
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 (DIR) Post #ATaCSqHzQBVAAm8g7c by matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange
       2023-03-13T19:37:42Z
       
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       So if someone trains a (future) LLM on your life story and everything you’ve written, do you think your survivors would find that comforting or just incredibly creepy?
       
 (DIR) Post #ATaCSr7kJktylIM0nI by kyle@social.librem.one
       2023-03-13T19:42:52Z
       
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       @matthew_d_green Given how much these models "fake it until they make it" to fill in gaps, I suspect most people will quickly hit edge cases where the simulation is expressly not like their loved one and says something upsetting instead of comforting.Even subtle differences have a good chance of triggering uncanny valley responses and for something like this, would likely just underscore the loss.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATaCSrNhMRf7Ylokeu by matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange
       2023-03-13T19:39:40Z
       
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       I don’t know if I would want to talk to a weird simulation of my dead family member. But I don’t know if I would not want to do that. All I know is this seems to be very much in-reach today and the near future.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATaCgNfOdTkBSKXiaW by Nickbin@kolektiva.social
       2023-03-13T19:39:40Z
       
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       @matthew_d_green there is an episode of Black Mirror about exactly this, season 2 ep 1 “be right back”
       
 (DIR) Post #ATaCgOWDT5zk69Ftuy by matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange
       2023-03-13T19:40:19Z
       
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       @Nickbin I think I remember this. But it’s not science fiction now. You could do this today.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATaCgPD6tcJ2FBK9mC by matt@oslo.town
       2023-03-13T19:45:23Z
       
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       @matthew_d_green @Nickbin There's also this: "an article in the San Francisco Chronicle described how a heartbroken man used the website to converse with a simulation of his fiancée, who died in 2012 aged 23 from liver disease"https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/08/project_december_openai_gpt_3/
       
 (DIR) Post #ATaCjeWuOaZccn8J2e by kyle@social.librem.one
       2023-03-13T19:45:55Z
       
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       @matthew_d_green I think what *might* be OK is a virtual librarian that curates this catalog of the loved one's pictures/writings/videos so you can reference/replay them later. It could even do this in the style of the loved one, but with a clear dividing line that demonstrates it's simply a virtual librarian and not attempting to *be* the loved one.