Thanks to Amnesty International, Charlie Kirk will never die for some people

There is not really a comfort for the bad guys. During the weekend, According to the religious news serviceand At least three The churches for their gatherings played a message after his death from Charlie Kerk, as he assured those in the seats, “I am fine, not because my body is fine, but because my soul is safe in Christ. Death is not the end, it is a promotion.”

Of course, Kirk was not speaking from his place in the afterlife. It was a clip created by artificial intelligence, before playing in these places of worship, he made social media tours. The sound appears to have arisen on Tiktok, Created by user nioscriptWho published a 51 -second message a day after Kirk was killed. Since then I got millions of standards, Share users Those who record themselves interact and cry while hearing the message created from artificial intelligence. All this ultimately led to the sound Played in churches Like Presttonwood Bismist in Texas, where Reverend Jack Graham presented him as Amnesty International – but as something “transfer” and that he participates so that his group can hear what Charlie says regarding what happened to him last week.

It is, again, what Charlie Kirk says. But this did not prevent people from talking to him as if it were real. Presttonwood BAPTIST members gave the video. public Dream City Church in Arizona and The Church, Saint Marcus, woke up in CaliforniaAnd both of them were running the clips, also applauded, as Religious news service indicated. Users responded to social media to sound with illustrations and comments such as “This is exactly what Charlie will say if he can talk to us now“Or”I know it is Amnesty International, but you cannot tell me that this is not exactly what he says“

This type of dealing with a loss is not completely unique. People have always sought to remember and preserve the people who love them after their passage, and technology has facilitated new ways to achieve this, whether it is an endless stream of images that excite memories or the presence of a person online has turned into a digital memorial. In the world of literature, it is often referred to as the name Continuous bonds. In this way, a video or video clip created by AI is no different from a person like Kirk from sharing stories about him to keep his memory alive.

The matter is different in that it is a full manufacture. It is not a memory, which can also be flawed, but it is an invention of a whole cloth. Yes, it may have access to Kirk’s words, similarities and sound, all of which are on the Internet. But, as a large language model, it is unable to do anything but try to bring the automatic void of sadness.

Create a copy of artificial intelligence from the deceased person to help the sadness process is a growing industry. A The last article in nature It highlights many efforts to understand whether Chatbots, which has been trained on a member of his family, can help in sad work through the complex and intense feelings that come with the loss. While there is some evidence that it indicates that “Griefbots” users have been able to find some internal feeling of closing with their missing loved ones, there are real risks to hurting people in a fragile emotional state, including making it difficult to give up the robot of the person.

There is also a very real concern that we are not simply able to distinguish between our true memories of the person and the ideas that are created in our minds through these types of interactions. A Ticket The MIT Media Lab Lab found that exposing a person to one image of Ai-Edited could affect a person’s memory, and that people exposed to images created from artificial intelligence “report high levels of confidence in their wrong memories.”

The truth of the people who mention Kirk this way is that the vast majority of them do not really know it. They have an exhibition relationship with him who want to continue, and the message of artificial intelligence allows this to happen because, in their minds, captures his voice – or, perhaps more accurately, what they want to hear.

There is already a lot of An constant discussion about who was exactly Charlie Kerk And how should he remember it without a copy created from his artificial intelligence in the conversation. But for people who are sad for his loss, if they believe that there is any part of Kirk’s spirit that lives in the sound of artificial intelligence, perhaps left it to rest.