Eternal Life of An AI-ghost

 

Jennifer Ann Crecente (1987-2006) was a lovely, young girl and high school pupil who met several problems when dating, including being murdered by ex-boyfriend Justin Crabbe. After her death e.g. a memorial grant was created in her name as well as legislation was passed in Texas in order to prevent teen dating violence. Actually an impressive legacy of a girl who tragically lost her life to a brute killing by a former boyfriend.

When the murderer was jailed and Jennifer's friends and family had had time to grieve one should imagine that that would be the end of the tragic case, but no, it wasn't: Without the consent of the family Jennifer was sort of resurrected as an AI-generated robot. October 2024 the father of Jennifer had a Google alert that the name and character of his murdered daughter had appeared online as if she had still been alive. There was a profile, a chatbot, etc., but there was no Jennifer as she was as dead as before.  

This "new, artificial Jennifer" whom one might chat with was created on Character.ai and they were forced to close it down. However, the shock of something like that will linger on which makes it obvious that this is a public area that needs to be restricted by laws as soon as possible.

REAL Jennifer 

Wu, Daniel (October 15, 2024). "His daughter was murdered. Then she reappeared as an AI chatbot". The Washington Post.

https://www.digit.in/news/general/ai-raises-dead-2006-murder-victim-recreated-as-chatbot-without-familys-consent.html

 

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/cltr/ai-daughter.html 

 

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