Woman claims she ‘contacted’ dead boyfriend via AI and told she was ‘in hell’: ‘It was scary’

Generative AI has made it possible to create chatbots that can imitate a dead person and allow someone to chat with them.

One woman reported the consequences of this. artificial intelligence Designed to help people, no matter what. negative results.

Specifically, technology offers a new way to help people cope with their grief when they are grieving the loss of someone.

So Generative Artificial Intelligence Allowed the building of chatbots that could imitate a dead person and allow someone to chat with them.

The technology called “Technology sadness“, is designed to allow a person to “talk” to someone who has “gone” from life.

But that might be more scary than good, she testified. Christie Angel.

As she said, she lost her first love, whose name was Cameron Scruggs, in 2020.

They lived in different places and communicated. Mainly through letters and emails.He even attended his funeral via video call due to coronavirus restrictions that year.

So since they always talk via email, it was the perfect situation for that. “Communicate” with himuse it Sad Tech Program.

At first, as I mentioned, she was excited about the idea.”I got excited. I would give anything to talk to Cameron. I wanted to ask him, “Are you okay? Did you make it to the other side?”He stressed that.

But then things took a turn for the worse when the AI ​​started talking about “haunted” rooms.

Finally, when Christie asked if Cameron had “followed the light,” the chatbot replied, “No.” What was it like in hell?.

Christie left very upset after that, saying:I thought it would be a good experience, but it was very scary for me.».

Such devices could prevent people from processing their grief in a healthy way, said Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States who specializes in human interaction with technology.

As he told The Guardian:He is refrain from mourningIt’s something we do to ourselves because technology is so tempting.».