‘Digital necromancy’: don't need to fear AI bringing people back from the dead

‘Digital necromancy’: don't need to fear AI bringing people back from the dead

Technology offers a new way to remember loved ones (Picture: Getty) Generative AI – which encompasses large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT but also image and video generators like DALL·E 2 – supercharges what has come to be known as ‘digital necromancy’, the conjuring of the dead from the digital traces they leave behind. Debates around digital necromancy were first sparked in the 2010s by advances in video projection (‘deep fake’ technolog…