The Affective Scaffolding of Grief in the Digital Age: The Case of Deathbots.
Contemporary and emerging chatbots can be fine-tuned to imitate the style, tenor, and knowledge of a corpus, including the corpus of a particular individual. This makes it possible to build chatbots that imitate people who are no longer alive — deathbots. Such deathbots can be used in many ways, but...
| Publicado en: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 757 - 770 |
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