Saw this in the New York Times today and was so repulsed by this that I had to make a thread.

nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/13/magazine/ai-avatar-life-death.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

So far we’ve seen these corporations use dead men’s twitters to promote movies and products, we’ve seen someone make an AI avatar of a murder victim tell their murderer that they forgive them, and now we’re here.

I usually like AI but this is weird

If these idiots wanna kill our planet and f*** their mental health all power to them. Im done getting mad about it, don’t have time for this rage bait. But also like

There was already a black mirror ep like this

Dan Hentschel

When the AI version of myself can bag more hotties than IRL me.

AI out here ruining shamans job market

there was a tv show called Upload with that premise that got cancelled

It's a mod ting when meta charges 499/mo to keep your AI dad online or else they delete them forever

delete them forever you have two dads?

All my homies are my dad's and I'm their dads

You and your homies call each other daddy?

Meek is that you?

I grieve different

Very strange imo

call me when we can put their heads in jars like futurama and then maybe i'll talk

My first thought

nah this some demonic s*** let that mfer rest

still cringe when ye did that projection of kims dead dad talking to her for her bday or something