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Father horrified by an AI Chatbot that mimicked his murdered daughter (www.forbes.com.au)

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Drew Crecente last spoke to his daughter Jennifer Ann Crecente on February 14, 2006. A day later, Jennifer, a senior in high school who was in an abusive relationship, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, who was later convicted and is serving time in prison. That year, Crescente started a nonprofit in her name to prevent teen dating violence and now routinely monitors any piece of media coverage related to her.

But he was appalled when he received a Google Alert notification at 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday that somebody had created a chatbot on popular AI platform Character AI using his daughter’s yearbook photo and name.

“A grieving father should not have to find out that his dead daughter is being used to try and make money as a chatbot on some website,” he told Forbes. “It shocks the conscience, and it’s unacceptable behavior”...

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[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Black Mirror

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"Be Right Back"

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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