Drones, Deepfakes, and Disruptors with Lon Harris, Remento and Cuby | E2058

But what they've done here is they're turning memories into a keepsake book, no writing required, preserve a loved one's story the easy way. Romento turns their spoken words into a personalized keepsake book of their stories. Now what they've done is with language models, you can select prompts that you want your parent or your grandparent or whoever to answer or your family. They record responses in their app. Then they create a book based on it and then you can like scan the book to listen to whatever QR code.

Is there something a little creepy about it? Like I I I don't I don't I don't know. It's it's definitely better than using AI to like recreate your dead loved ones. Like I know there's that thing too where it's like feed their voice into our AI and you could chat with your grandma and like that really is troublesome to me. Like this is why is that tru why is that troublesome to you?

It just Creepy or you have a concern about it. It is creepy. I don't have like a concern like it's gonna ruin the world or anything, but I I think it's it there is something a little ghoulish about it because I don't believe that AI is really able to like I think it's a lie. People are supposed to die and then you remember them and that's how it works.

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