[ExI] Speaking with deceased companions

[BillK]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2025 at 22:12, <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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> BillK, that isn’t what is worrying me.  If I use my ExI posts to train my avatar, it is using material that I may have written some time ago, when I was a silly young bahstid.  I may not believe in those views anymore, or hold those opinions, now that time has passed, and I am a silly old bahstid.  Some of the material used to train my avatar might be things I wrote two, three or even four weeks ago.  I am just not that way anymore.
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> I have an idea however.  If I can have a discussion with an avatar trained on my old posts, then I have it record the clever replies and refutations I offer back, now that I am old and several percent less ignorant.  Then I create a new avatar trained on all the new stuff.  It becomes more like the REAL me.  For a few weeks anyway.
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> spike
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Yes, that's one of the worries with these memorial avatars.
The avatar could be trained on any data available, from any person and
any source. It would have the likeness and voice style of the original
individual, but it could be trained to say absolutely anything.
Deepfakes on steroids!
That's why the AI reports are worried about the lack of regulations
and ethical problems.

BillK