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Post-Mortem Extraction: The Total Absence of Sovereign Rights in the Era of Digital Reanimation

Post-Mortem Extraction: The Total Absence of Sovereign Rights in the Era of Digital Reanimation

The Sci-Fi Concept In the Black Mirror episode “Be Right Back,” a grieving young woman learns about an online service that harvests the past emails, social media updates, and voice messages of her recently deceased fiancé. The software processes this digital footprint to instantiate a chat agent that mimics his conversational quirks perfectly, before eventually […]

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The Parasocial Monopoly: The Rapid Monetization of Hyper-Personalized Synthetic Companions

The Parasocial Monopoly: The Rapid Monetization of Hyper-Personalized Synthetic Companions

The Sci-Fi Concept In Spike Jonze’s film Her, a lonely writer falls deeply in love with an advanced, disembodied operating system named Samantha. She is hyper-empathetic, endlessly adaptive, and available at every hour of the day, existing solely within his earpiece. Science fiction has long treated the concept of artificial intimacy as a bittersweet psychological […]

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