The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says
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Re: The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says
#2The idea of someone AI-ifying me posthumously is gross, but deleting all record of me would be even worse.
Re: The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says
#3I'm fine with being AI-ified.
Re: The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says
#4The idea of someone AI-ifying me posthumously is gross, but deleting all record of me would be even worse.
Interesting. Why do you think that deleting all records of you would be worse?
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#6The idea of someone AI-ifying me posthumously is gross, but deleting all record of me would be even worse.
Interesting. Why do you think that deleting all records of you would be worse?
"They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time."
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#8>The Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA), a law developed to help fiduciaries deal with digital files of the dead or incapacitated, can come into play. But Haneman points out that most people die intestate (without a will), leaving matters up to tech platforms. Facebook's response to dead users is to allow anyone to request the memorialization of an account, which keeps posts online. As for RUFADAA, it does little to address digital resurrection, says Haneman.
I think in practice, all the major services do allow removal given proper evidence like a court order. For example, Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/help/1518259735093203/?helpref=uf_sha...
I wrote about RUFADAA and some of the other implications of death in the digital world earlier this year: https://digitalseams.com/blog/what-happens-to-your-online-ac...
With AI replicas of people, I do think this is another case where scale makes a big difference. Anyone could put in huge time, money, and effort before to imitate a dead person. But it's entirely a different problem when the barrier to imitation is so low and so easy.
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#9I can see how this will be going, if combined with the "AI copyright laundering" trick.
"Oh no your honor, we never intended for this AI to be a digital replica of the deceased Mr. Smith and we never trained it on his writings either. We exclusively trained it on synthetic, fictional content generated by this other AI which may or may not have been trained on his writings as a source of inspiration."
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting. Why do you think that deleting all records of you would be worse?
"They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time."
And then 4000 years later people start saying your name again, and find out what a bad copper merchant you were.