Press 1 for Digital Necromancy
In a moment of boredom as I awaited being called up for jury duty polling, I was doom scrolling through social media. I came across this gem in my feed from some British news source. At first, I could not decide if this was one of those weird click bait social media feed articles written by AI. I have my days where I think 3/4's+ of the stuff (particularly videos) on the social media now is completely AI generated garbage. I poked around the website itself and it seemed to be a quasi-legit online opinion editorial website. I am still skeptical, but it did have some thoughtful editorials if you dug around. Regardless, the article itself is disturbing. It is not disturbing in the directly maudlin or intentionally dystopian kind of senses. The article was unintentionally dystopian. The author was simply reporting on a particular usage of an AI phenomenon that is on the rise: the chatbot. More specifically, and what caught my attention enough to read the entire article, was wha...