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Straight out of the Black Mirror episode Be Right Back[0] which is 7 years old.

[SPOILERS] In the episode the episode, the main character uses a service to reconstruct a chat bot (and eventually a lifelike avatar) built from her dead partner's social media history. Eventually she becomes frustrated by the lack of depth (since it's only trained on social media data, it falls into a sort of uncanny valley of comprehension and personality), but can't part with it, confining it to the attic of her home.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back




Arguably if someone can get all my data online (I never use my real name or make it easy for anyone irl to come across it)

They would have a better version of me than I am to others irl right now. It would feel more real.

Perhaps that is something I should be worried about and change but it's never so easy to come across stuff that require deep conversation and shows what one is truly like. Beside, I don't say anything controversial or misleading offline. I fear the lack of context will lead to people filling in a lot of black holes. You can't spit out previous links or cite multiple sources to build upon somewhat unpopular or non mainstream contrastive opinion to popular media.

Not many people have time or attention span either anyways. Just talk about food, daily chores and work.




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