Last month, Sixth Tone published an article titled Looking for Closure, a Grandson Built a Ghost in the Machine. It’s about a software engineer Yu Jialin, 29, who used AI to revive his grandfather from the dead — or a digitalized version of him at least. It took him weeks of hard work and long nights. The intimate project was not just an attempt to recreate an artificial version of his late grandfather, it was an attempt to ask him for forgiveness.
Dangerous if relatives cannot recognise this as a digital imposter with no soul that may well hallucinate. Yu made the right decision.