Man-made horrors beyond comprehension: AI-generated videos of deceased loved ones

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This is doing the rounds on X and the responses vary from "lovely" to "abhorrent":





Grok Imagine can render video from text prompts or from pictures you upload. People are uploading photos of deceased loved ones and Grok Imagine renders a 15-second video based off that photo.

At first glance this is nice and wholesome but honestly this feels like an affront to life itself and this is 100% going to one-shot less stable people Pet Cemetery-style.

Would you use it?
 
SJRB said:
This is doing the rounds on X and the responses vary from "lovely" to "abhorrent":





Grok Imagine can render video from text prompts or from pictures you upload. People are uploading photos of deceased loved ones and Grok Imagine renders a 15-second video based off that photo.

At first glance this is nice and wholesome but honestly this feels like an affront to life itself and this is 100% going to one-shot less stable people Pet Cemetery-style.

Would you use it?
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Many people have referred to AI as the new "ouija board." (That's the second reference I have made to that today -- weird day.) Stuff like this makes me think that's true.
 
My mom loves this kinda stuff. Old pictures of town squares re-animated and stuff. I vehemently oppose all of it. That's not how those people moved, how they behaved, the expressions on their faces. It's all made up. It's like parading a dead body or perhaps an existence that once was.

This is not a new thing though. Saw a documentary recently about the backlash Disney got for his attempts to bring Lincoln to life in the form of an animatronic. Many of the same arguments were made back then. But at least he tried to bring him alive with some kind of artistic vision, with integrity. Nowadays it's just a soulless machine that produces slop.

But hey, if it helps some people cope with their loss or something, I guess I can't judge too harshly.
 
It's just a photo, they aren't reanimating her corpse. People used to dress up and pose with dead loved ones for a last photograph together, or corpse masks were a thing. A simple AI animated photo is no big deal, if/when they push into full blown fantasy events the person never took part in or doing things they never did I will view it differently.
 
SJRB said:
This is doing the rounds on X and the responses vary from "lovely" to "abhorrent":





Grok Imagine can render video from text prompts or from pictures you upload. People are uploading photos of deceased loved ones and Grok Imagine renders a 15-second video based off that photo.

At first glance this is nice and wholesome but honestly this feels like an affront to life itself and this is 100% going to one-shot less stable people Pet Cemetery-style.

Would you use it?
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I posted a comment about a Chinese phone that can do this a couple of months ago. Go to the 9:00 minute mark
 
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Digital taxidermy

Personally, I think it's fine. It's no different from taking someone's photo and keeping it after they're dead. Or a painting. The only issue is humans and their constant inability to distinguish reality from fiction.

The real mental breakdowns are going to be when everyone's personality and voice clips are all automatically recorded in the big police state database and people can use their dead relatives as AI buddies.
 
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I don't understand the original tweet. The generated image accurately depicts their mom from decades ago, but all she's doing is turning her head and looking out the fucking window. Pretty sure that's a standard animation for someone sitting, you know, next to a bloody window. It's not like she was a salsa dancer, and this dumbass has a picture of her salsa dancing, but then this generator is able to 100% replicate the salsa moves she used to make. Then, I'd be a bit more impressed. But her turning her head? Okay. Not exactly unique to your mom, dude. "Oh wow. My mom turned her head JUST LIKE THAT!"

I'm fine if people want to do this kind of thing. I wouldn't want it, personally, as photos are good enough.
 
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I mean who gives a shit. Let people do what they want with their own photos. Too many people feel the need to social engineer other people when ultimately this is just re-arranging pixels.
 
This is completely abominable and demonic.

A.I especially in the future in RL won't be like those cool smart chill A.I in shows where they got a A.I companion that's good. In RL these A.I will be demonic and a portal to the spirit realm a.k.a these things are pure evil.
 
As AI gets better, this will get worse. It starts out as revolting and will make it's way to acceptance. In my opinion, this has already gone too far.
 
Hawk The Slayer said:
This is completely abominable and demonic.
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Mothers Day Lol GIF by reactionseditor
 
Punished Miku said:
Digital taxidermy

Personally, I think it's fine. It's no different from taking someone's photo and keeping it after they're dead. Or a painting. The only issue is humans and their constant inability to distinguish reality from fiction.

The real mental breakdowns are going to be when everyone's personality and voice clips are all automatically recorded in the big police state database and people can use their dead relatives as AI buddies.
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There is a disturbing Black Mirror episode about something similar. A service that uses voicemails, emails, texts etc. to recreate the dead person's personality to be uploaded into a replicant essentially. Came out years ago and I remember being weirdly shook by it but also thinking there's no way this isn't coming down the pipe. Grief is too brutal and cruel and a lot of us would use anything to numb it if given the choice I think.

Don't have any real reasoning for this particular tweet but it made me uncomfortable and kind of upset to imagine my dead mother moving and behaving "against her will". I know it really isn't per say but that was my gut reaction.
 
Punished Miku said:
The real mental breakdowns are going to be when everyone's personality and voice clips are all automatically recorded in the big police state database and people can use their dead relatives as AI buddies.
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This is the "obvious" evolution/perversion (I pitched an app project of this 10 years ago at my MBA, lol) and it's abhorrent. Dystopian society fuel.

No functional society should encourage this kind of stuff. It's amazing that this needs to be explained to grown people.
 
Not that big of a deal if you ask me. What's abhorrent is that company that recreated a dead kid in VR and had the mother running around trying to hug it. Now that's fucked.
 
Clair spoiler, just in case.

Gaf "this popular game about a mother who wanted to live in a painting forever with her son that died irl is so amazing, so powerful"
Same gaf: "this tech that allows people to see their dead ones alive forever is disgusting and demonic!!!!!"
 
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InterMusketeer said:
My mom loves this kinda stuff. Old pictures of town squares re-animated and stuff. I vehemently oppose all of it. That's not how those people moved, how they behaved, the expressions on their faces. It's all made up. It's like parading a dead body or perhaps an existence that once was.

This is not a new thing though. Saw a documentary recently about the backlash Disney got for his attempts to bring Lincoln to life in the form of an animatronic. Many of the same arguments were made back then. But at least he tried to bring him alive with some kind of artistic vision, with integrity. Nowadays it's just a soulless machine that produces slop.

But hey, if it helps some people cope with their loss or something, I guess I can't judge too harshly.
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Photos and videos arent real either. At least we aren't propping up children's corpses with eyes painted on their eyelids for a family photo anymore.
 
To be honest, i wish AI went more towards robotics/word prompts and stay away from visual artistic representation. Its fake and it fucks up the brain
 
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To be honest, I wish AI would fuck off. It's being forced into everything with a "we never asked if we should" approach to integration into every element of business and personal life, with the sole aim of funnelling more money into the pockets of the same morally bankrupt companies that can't be trusted to do anything for the good of anything but their shareholders.

So there's that. Weigh that up against "but now I don't have to think about writing my own emails! Leaving me free for more pressure to be poured on me as I wonder if I'll be in the next round of layoffs when they realise I'm not managing anyone since my team were replaced by AI!"

Added bonus: vast energy and water consumption and all the great stuff that brings too.
 
This is fucking disgusting!

AI is such an amazing tool but I can already see just how badly it will be used by humanity and on what a dark path it will lead us on.
 
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Honestly? I will use this tech. My mom died when I was a little kid and I don't remember her that much anymore. Would help my trauma.
 
Having passed through this kind of trauma recently (lost my mother in 2022), the south Korean kid/mother creeps the shit out of me.

I definitely wouldn't use this kind of thing at this time...maybe in a good 10/15 years or so.
 
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I think an oppo\chinese phone already does that.

The tech is incredible and of all the terrible things you can do with ai, this is not one of them.
 
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Generating some random clip with your dead loved one is super creepy. Maybe in the future when you'll be able to recreate very specific memories you have of them and if you don't have any actual videos to remember them... but even then it would still be creepy.
 
I'm gonna secretly record a bunch of video to be released to AI after my death where I talk about all my clandestine CIA missions, fighting off aliens, exploring the hollow earth, basically just make my AI avatar waaaaaaaay cooler than I ever was :P
 
YCoCg said:
It's all fun and games until scammers use it to con old people out of their money.
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My biggest fear is using deepfske, ai voice technology and spoofing calls to trick your kids to go somewhere and them getting kidnapped or abused.
I am literally thinking about making a secret code for them to ask if they are really talking to us...
 
Doczu said:
My biggest fear is using deepfske, ai voice technology and spoofing calls to trick your kids to go somewhere and them getting kidnapped or abused.
I am literally thinking about making a secret code for them to ask if they are really talking to us...
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This is a good idea anyway, as strangers can glean enough info from your, or the friends of your kids, social media to make a convincing case to a kid already.

But yes, spoofing a chat message, or even a phone call, is already possible and is TERRIFYING. What's worse is we just allow this shit to happen, 'cause right now it's largely foreign agents scamming money, not grabbing kids.
 
I think the tech is cool! Give me Harry Potter vibes. Some of y'all are amusing. I guess the same people who cal this an abomination now are the same type of people back in the day that thought photos stole your soul! Evolve people. Change is good. 😎
 
Cimarron said:
I think the tech is cool! Give me Harry Potter vibes. Some of y'all are amusing. I guess the same people who cal this an abomination now are the same type of people back in the day that thought photos stole your soul! Evolve people. Change is good. 😎
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Buddy did you miss the whole point of the mirror of erised in Harry Potter?
 
SJRB said:
Buddy did you miss the whole point of the mirror of erised in Harry Potter?
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With video generation from old videos and now the ability to create worlds, some people will be able to return back to their childhood and stutff.

Though it kinda reminds me of old trend from 100 years ago where people were taking photos with dead people.
 
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