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The following article is excerpted from AppSo, edited by EVA
Some time ago, "AI digital life" suddenly became popular again.
Recently, Taiwanese musician Bao Xiaobai used AI technology to reconstruct the voice and image of his daughter who unfortunately passed away;
In December last year, Tang Xiaoou, the founder of SenseTime, who passed away suddenly, "appeared" on the stage again as an AI digital human at the company's annual meeting, which sparked heated discussions on the Internet.
The "AI resurrection" of the deceased is coming to life.
With the continuous breakthrough development of AI video technology, the recent "AI resurrection" cases seem to be out of control, and many of them consume the emotional behavior of deceased public figures.
A number of deceased well-known artists were "resurrected by AI" by netizens, and the video rushed to the hot search.
Like what:
"AI Coco Lee" said, "I will always be with you";
"AI Qiao Renliang" said, "I didn't really leave";
"AI Gao Yixiang" said, "My heart will always be with you".
There are also many well-known foreign public figures, such as:
"AI Kobe" said, "Thanks to the AI team in China, we can reunite";
"AI Michael Jackson" says "Hey fans, I'm back."
These "AI resurrections" have not been approved by the families of the deceased, and are very immoral and uncivilized behaviors.
Qiao Renliang's father bluntly said after watching the video that "I can't accept it and feel uncomfortable", and the casual application of new technology once again uncovers the scars of his relatives.
Some video platforms have removed similar "AI resurrection" videos on the grounds of "alleged infringement of portrait rights".
"AI resurrection" is not a new concept
mentioned "AI resurrection", as early as 2013, the first episode of the second season of "Black Mirror", which was recognized as a terrible prophecy by the screenwriters at the time-
The story of "Black Mirror" tells that the heroine lost her husband in a car accident and was unwilling to say goodbye, and with the help of a high-tech company, she rebuilt her husband's mind and body through her husband's social media and other information to create an "AI cyber boyfriend".
However, the "AI boyfriend" has no real human emotions, he doesn't need to sleep all day with his eyes open, his hands are cut by splinters and heal immediately, the simulated wheezing sound is very clumsy, and more importantly, the "AI boyfriend" can only rigidly carry out orders.
The heroine finally can't bear it anymore and orders her "AI boyfriend" to jump off the cliff.
"AI boyfriend" "emotion" calmly asked: Do I really want to jump?
The machine is not suicidal, but if the heroine insists, it will execute.
The heroine explains that if it were her husband himself, he would be scared. The obedient "AI boyfriend" immediately begins to imitate her husband's crying, and the heroine has an emotional breakdown and screams out of her voice.
She said, "You're not him, you're just a ripple of him, you don't have a past. 」
The robot boyfriend said expressionlessly, "Don't do this, I'm here to please you. 」
What is the purpose of "AI Resurrection"?
From the perspective of values, resurrecting someone, as described in Black Mirror, is the "please" of the living.
However, the way of "pleasing people" seems to be to judge the living - or their families, or the developers of AI technology, which is somewhat unfair to the deceased.
Everyone is irreplaceable, but with the advancement of technology, it may be possible to "copy" 100%.
At the end of the day, "AI resurrection" is just a rhetorical statement.
Even in the magical universe constructed by Harry Potter, the Resurrection Stone cannot bring the dead back to life, and the souls it attracts are only close to real people, an indescribable illusory substance, but it brings endless mental torture to the summoner.
The so-called "AI resurrection", with the current cutting-edge AIGC technology, can only simulate some characteristics of a person, such as: oral expression, voice and timbre, moving portrait image...
"AI resurrection" has entered the homes of ordinary people
In the past, we could only get the look and experience of "AI resurrection" through the contemporary film industry.
Nowadays, the civilian AIGC technology allows ordinary people to become the target of "AI resurrection".
Seance AI, an AI technology startup in the United States, provides a similar "AI resurrection" service, where relatives can enter the text information left by the deceased by filling in the name, age, reason for death, personality traits, kinship, etc., and then chat with the "AI deceased" through the AI chatbot platform.
If you don't want to stay in black and white, for $10 a month, you can have the service provider simulate the voice of a deceased loved one and create animated images of the eyes and head moving on top of text chat.
Turning our attention back to China, a number of "AI resurrected" merchants have begun to emerge on Taobao to provide similar services.
Buyers only need to provide a photo and audio of a person to make the portrait move and even speak.
I consulted with one of them, and they said that if they provided a full-length photo of their face, their mouths and eyes would move.
If the buyer wants the person in the photo to "speak", they only need to provide enough voice training materials and then provide a piece of text material that they want the AI digital human to speak.
With the current technology, they are all products of on-demand customization, and it is just a psychological comfort that is better than nothing.
Buyers obviously know this too. Although the merchants advertised "it's like having a loved one by your side", some people left in the comment section:
"The dialect accent is a little different, and it can only be about 70% god-like."
In addition to customized moving images, there is also a more realistic "AI resurrection" service, which combines AI face-swapping technology with real-life COS playing.
Buyers can chat with their "deceased loved ones" through online video calls. The cost ranges from a few thousand to ten thousand.
In the recent news hotspots, this kind of "AI resurrection" video has a high number of views on platforms such as Douyin, and the protagonist is often an old man who can hardly bear the bad news.
At the behest of his children, the technician used a similar face and voice to tell a "white" lie, and the old man looked at the "AI family" on the screen, couldn't tell what was wrong, cried and poured out his thoughts, and told the other party to be safe outside.
The emotional value of this kind of shell skin change has won bursts of applause and a lot of doubts.
It is true that technology is two-edged, and the technology of AI face swapping is common, and it may also be used for malicious fraud.
On one side is a beauty, and on the other side is dry bones.
In the popular domestic sci-fi movie "The Wandering Earth 2", Tu Yaya was "resurrected by AI" by her father Tu Hengyu, and got "cyber life immortality" in a quantum computer.
Even if technology can reach the end scene depicted in science fiction movies, ethics will always be controversial.
In many human myths and legends, resurrection from the dead is often considered taboo.
When the "AI resurrection" becomes a money-making industrial chain, there may be some risks.
To put it more broadly, "AI resurrection relatives" are actually a subset of "custom digital clones", and the original intention of the technology is not limited to serving the resurrected dead.
Recently, many apps have begun to launch the "AI digital avatar" function, allowing young people to create their own digital avatars, and even have idols.
However, there is a risk of infringement in doing so, and no business has dared to do this kind of business blatantly.
For the Chinese, life and death are big things.
We tend not to joke around and are more tolerant in return.
More replies in the comment area were: "Although it doesn't look like it, I miss it very much", "Goosebumps rose after reading it".
What is more meaningful than "AI resurrection" is to better "preserve" memories
- Do you want to resurrect your deceased loved ones by AI?
- Are you willing to have your family "AI resurrected"?
The subject is different, and the answer may be diametrically opposed.
One day in the future, all the information we have on the online platform (images, audio recordings, videos) will be uploaded to the cloud as training materials for AI to learn.
Future children and grandchildren will be faced with a video or audio that can be interacted with, and the AI will simulate the characters, and when your voice sounds, it will be as if you are talking to them yourself.
Different from traditional photo albums and audio recordings, the "AI Memory" service is interactive, accurately retrieved, anytime, anywhere, and has questions and answers, becoming a semi-eternal fragment of time and space memory.
But one thing to say, if these training data are accidentally leaked, then "social death" may come earlier than physiological death.
It also inspired me that the way humans preserve their memories, from letters to photo albums, from videos to AI digital twins, will change as technology evolves.
I prefer to use AI technology to "store memories" rather than "resurrect" someone.
A philosopher has said that a person dies three times in his life.
The first time is when you breathe, the second time when you are buried, and the third time when you are forgotten by the last person who remembers.
Apple defines Vision Pro as a revolutionary spatial computing device that changes the way people work, collaborate, connect, relive memories and enjoy entertainment.
It seems uncommon for a 3C technology digital device to specifically mention "memory".
When the user puts on the Vision Pro, they feel like they are surrounded by panoramic images, as if they are in the field, and they have returned to a certain moment in the past.
Vision Pro's promotional copy for the album reads: "Live in the moment and start all over again. 」
Reality is the most precious, and there is no substitute for reality.
Because of AIGC technology, we can turn old photos out for AI quality restoration, and we have more opportunities to archive memories.
Maybe one day in the future, we will eventually be made into "AI digital life" by future generations, and don't forget to write a few disclaimers for yourself in advance in your will:
——The memory time and space displayed by this digital virtual human may have fictional elements, which are inconsistent with the facts, and are for reference only.
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