Reanimating the dead to digital “life” raises tricky ethical questions
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Eternal You Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck Selected cinemas, UK and Ireland
WOULD you want to talk to a dead loved one? The new film Eternal You explores “grief technologies” that set out to reanimate the dead by feeding data they generated in life to large language models (LLMs), a form of artificial intelligence. This superb documentary is also a timely warning about who owns our data when we die and why this matters.
For years, Joshua Barbeau grieved for his fiancée Jessica. Then he found a…