Microsoft has been granted a patent that would allow the company to make a chet bot using the personal information of deceased people. This is a sticky area ethically. What are the rights of the dead? They aren't around to give consent for their words to be fed into a language model and spit back out. And then there's the question of potential harm to the living, right? Is it healthy for someone who has lost a loved one to ad address his grief by simulating conversations with a dead loved one? Or or is that instead a form of escape that could lead to more troma down the line? I don't know the answers, and i i don't think anyone does