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The digital afterlife: what it is and what it is not
Grief bots, memorial accounts and digital representations are often called a digital afterlife. What the term should mean, and what Huzro builds.
"Digital afterlife" is used for very different things: memorial pages on social networks, chatbots trained on old messages, voice clones, archives of photos. Some of them comfort people. Some of them confuse them. It is worth being precise.
What it is not
A digital afterlife is not the person continuing. No technology today can carry a person's consciousness into a computer. Anything that claims otherwise is selling a feeling, not a fact.
It is also not a chatbot that improvises in someone's name. A model that guesses what a person might have said, with no record of who they were and no consent from them, is imitation.
What it can be
A digital afterlife can be the continuation of a representation that a person built while alive, from their own identity, memories, values and relationships, with their consent, and that is honest about being a representation.
That is what Huzro builds. A Huzro representation lives in its Digital Home, can take part in a Digital World, and always says what it is.
Activated with care
A Huzro Legacy representation is never activated just because someone goes quiet. Activation requires a reported death, documents and authorization, and every step is recorded.
Who it is for
A digital afterlife is for the people who remain as much as for the person who left. It should help them remember accurately, not trap them in a performance. Honesty is what makes that possible.
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