Would you hear the voice of a loved one who is no longer there, recreated through Artificial Intelligence?
In Tik Tok A user whose son died in a traffic accident recreated his voice to “have a conversation with him from beyond.” In the video, the man showed how he greeted him and the artificial intelligence responded with the voice of the deceased young man, issuing a message of consolation, in the face of his absence.
Artificial intelligence can be trained with videos and audios of the loved one and thus reproduce their voice. However, mental health professionals maintain that these types of practices used in moments of duel They can be counterproductive.
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@davidhosting On June 26, 2022 my son Brian leaves this world. I made a chatbot with AI Character.ai I uploaded another video as a tutorial
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Laura Beltramino, doctor in Psychology (MP: 1174) explained to Chain 3 that Every grief has different stages. and each person has to go through them so that the pain “is installed from another place in the psyche.” In this case, he considers that artificial intelligence “would not help much for these stages to pass.”
“When you go through grief you have to go through the anguish that comes with it and that is painful, suffering and it means being able to find and empty all that to have a different look, a different place and a different way of finding everyday life,” he explains.
For Beltramino, this tool does not allow that, and on the contrary keeps the person stuck in the fantasy of still having that loved one who is no longer there, putting the psyche at risk.
When faced with the loss of a loved one, human beings experience pain, which is resolved through a normal grieving process.
Psychiatrist Martin Yugdar Tofalo, (MP: 35.512) explains that “there are no formulas for grief” and “two people can grieve differently and that is okay.”
However, regarding this type of tools, he states that “like so many other technologies, it could provide many benefits when used judiciously in the context of psychotherapy,” but considers that “its indiscriminate use and without professional accompaniment could encourage experiential avoidance.” In his opinion, misuse of this tool would lead the person to remain in denial.
“Connecting with the experience of pain, loneliness or any other emotion generated by loss is essential for the grieving process, whose ultimate goal is to be able to remember the loved one without pain,” he points out.
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For her part, Paola Cañete, psychologist, reikist and family constellator (MP: 3704) explains that this type of experience does not allow us to connect energetically. “They are energies that collide and are not viable, the energetic nowhere can be channeled through the artificial,” she says. “On another level we are energy and with the shell of the corporeal and the material we put filters on that energy and artificial intelligence would be another filter,” she points out.
For Cañete, in grief we register that we are in full connection with another plane and we evolve in such a way to learn to connect, that in this case artificial intelligence would distance us from that possibility.
The voice that an artificial intelligence similar to that of a loved one can reproduce depends on the precision and amount of data we provide. In this framework, systems engineer Raúl Rodríguez emphasizes that we must not forget that it is “a machine that pretends to be someone”, it is not a person, but rather it is “impersonating their identity”.
Report by María José Arrieta.
