Ah I'm so glad you liked it!!!! Thank you so much for reading ❤️

I’m so incredibly proud of the work R.A. has done, not just in the year+ of our working together, but in the four years she was working at this novel before it ever made it to my desk. A huge congratulations to her today for officially being a published author ♥️

You’re trying to posit a mutually exclusive view of this that makes no sense. “Don’t care about this disgusting use of the most rapidly growing technology worming its way into every facet of our lives because another completely different bad thing also exists.” It’s not about which is worse.

It’s pretty fucking sick to slap the face of a dead kid mowed down in yet another school shooting onto an AI chatbot and pretend that “talking” to it has anything to do with gun control.

At the end of the day this isn’t an advocacy tool for gun control, it’s an ad for using AI to “bring back” your dead loved ones that ignored the very real dangers of AI-induced psychosis

YES. It’s a bad thing! Because this isn’t getting anyone talking about gun control, it’s getting people talking about AI!
If anyone believes that the bodies of hundreds of dead children can’t move the needle on gun control but a chatbot with a dead kid’s face on it will, they need to get offline.

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urba...

The parents are the ones who made the AI, if you read the rest of the thread

What do you mean “source?” I literally tagged the publication where this article was published AND you’re staring at the headline and the byline ????

The real story here should be about the dangers of AI-induced psychosis and how easy it is for chatbots to lead to a break from reality, in small or large ways. Any reasonable person hearing him talk about the AI they slapped his son’s face on as though it’s a person should have been concerned.

Did you look at the rest of what I have to say in this thread? Yes, I’ve seen the father’s follow up video.
“Thanks to AI we can bring him back”
“Joaquin has a lot of things to say”
Those are not the words of someone rooted in reality about the death of their child & Acosta exploited that for clicks

I hate AI so fucking much and we are all so far beyond screwed if people don’t get it into their fucking heads that the predictive text machine they’re farming their entire lives out to isn’t really talking to them.

And none of that to even touch on how astoundingly disrespectful it is to pretend this AI chatbot is worth speaking to about gun violence instead of the REAL VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE. Who gives a fuck what this thing spits out? How about the real human thoughts of the real human people affected?

The boy’s father insists that he’s aware he’s not reviving his son, but he sure doesn’t talk about it like he realizes this thing isn’t a person, isn’t talking to them, and certainly isn’t their son’s real thoughts and words.
This is not a healthy way to cope with grief or anything rooted in reality

These are parents in the depths of grief who need help processing the sudden violent death of their child, not to have their delusions about “talking” to their “son” encouraged and enabled by journalists pretending it’s a person and having a conversation with it.

The AI bot was created by his parents on what would have been his 25th birthday. They talk to it “for hours” and his mother uses it to hear her son’s voice say “I love you, mommy.”

“The Israeli government has not done enough to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid…” The despicable cowardice of passive language here is galling. Why are you all so completely incapable of taking an actual stand against the fact that Israel is actively and purposely starving Palestinians?