Chatgpt Resurrected My Dead Father
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An article discusses how ChatGPT helped someone cope with grief by simulating a conversation with their deceased father, sparking a nuanced discussion about the technology's emotional implications.
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pseudolusAuthor
3 months ago
https://archive.ph/WXAFT
mwkaufma
3 months ago
No it didn't.
Aperocky
3 months ago
The AI context is too small, this feels like an opportunity for dedicated training/fine tuning with large amount of data from a person's life instead of the limited context window of a current model.
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