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And that’s basically it!
Just as the company who's offering the service is motivated by the all consuming need to make money, so to is the journalist strives to make click bait to drive revenue. So the wheel turns.
This service is creepy as hell though, anything that's literally a black mirror episode should probably be reconsidered as a product or service.
At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
probably be reconsidered as a product or service.
The real problem is the target demographic, which is vulnerable and desperate people. Everyone who would use this app logically on some level knows it won't help them, but that's just not something that will matter to a person in grief.
It's predatory, and even worse, will prevent some people from healing through grief. The future kinda sucks.
We're gonna be living in that show Upload eventually
This article is terrible, but this is the plot of multiple pieces of sci fi media. In cyberpunk 2077 you have “soulkiller” which is a program that extracts the entire contents of someone’s mind to an “engram” that can be used to interact with their consciousness after death. And the black mirror episode “San Junipero” is about people uploading their consciousness to continue to exist after death. While it’s a dumb gimmick in its current state, it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see this become a thing in the future.
Is this case not more similar to Black Mirror S02E01 Be Right Back?
She joins an app that takes the digital history of a dead partner and it responds to her the way he would.
It then takes it a step further and respawns him but the first part is spot on.
That’s true, certainly more fitting to what this company is claiming to do
Not the onion?....... hm..... That's something The onion would say....
In one of many depictions ghouls, they consume the flesh of dead bodies so that they can steal their image and trick the living.
The people behind this app are literally ghouls.