I unironically survived childhood and adolescence because of my refusal to give up and 'let life win', which is an ironclad conviction of mine that I will now be referring to exclusively as my Princess Rage.

katana with おもらし engraved on the blade

⁴:
It's kinda like the current Avatar and their Past Lives in ATLA, if that makes sense.

¹:
My preferred term for
'Alter' / 'Headmate'.

[Yes, like a Partition on a computer's HDD/SSD/Etc]

²:
Things I was told by others explicitly and/or were culturally taught to me and reinforced over my life

³:
Being a nesting doll of differently-aged selves is based af and I am glad I am Us[Myself]

Is this thread a long way of saying I love wearing diapers, cuddling stuffies / my cat / loved ones who accept me and babbling like an infant with a giant grin on my face?

Yes, and it is very good.

TLDR:

I'm like if an adult woman was a 15yo girl who was a 6yo kid who was a 3yo³

AND allow myself to be the gentle, sweet, starry-eyed and delighted little child that I am at my core without self-flagellation for being:

'Too much, Too Childlike, Weird, Off, Etc'².

It has been so deeply healing for myself to accept and embrace that I am Plural and in my case, each Partition¹ is stitched together well enough that we all agree one is also the other, and as a group we make a whole that we each also are⁴--

It's allowed me to develop great self-parenting skills

Final TLDR:

I find this service, as well as the fact that it's been made already, along with the marketing for it--

In our current cultural context--

Immensely unsettling and disturbing.

0/10 iGrandma just told me I should buy a new flavor of Doritos, who is her sponsor for this week.

¹:
I think there is room for discussion of the concept of:

"If we can replicate the function of a human brain via technology, AND archive the contents of a human brain completely, is iGrandma-- Grandma?"³

²:
Heaven,etc;
Prayer,etc

³:
TLDR, IMO, no.
However, this iGrandma is closer than the above.

And meanwhile they're looking at a screen spit back language they find recognizable that a machine pulled from 15 different books, three buzzfeed articles, and a ransom note that was quotes in a newspaper article from 1987 or something.

TLDR:

No!!
Stop!!

[I agree w/ you very much so]

iGrandma is kinda' like if you made an automated Muppet that looked like Grandma.

I fear for people who use this service and their psychological well-being due to the likelihood they'll really think:

"iGrandma is Grandma!! Her [Soul, Essence, Cognition, Etc] is in the computer now omg!!"

like there is between oneself and oneself's concept of:

"What might Grandma be doing in [Afterlife Destination Here], and what would she say to me about [Thing]?"

2.
The technology just ain't there.
iGrandma will be a composite LLM output thingy based on limited datasets, as all other LLMs are.

1.Humans are not yet psychologically equipped to handle the idea of a person being 'immortal' via technology;

Many humans believe in an afterlife and even communication with deceased loved ones through that medium²;

The difference is there is no 'physical separation' between oneself and iGrandma

I have so many thoughts about this conceptually¹, and I'm going to laser focus myself on how I understand the factors realistically at play at this time in the world, for humans and their cultures, and the limitations of technology that in turn limit the capabilities of this 'service':