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rs_rs_rs_rs_rstoday at 7:08 PM4 repliesview on HN

>The sad part is my mother would love "remixing" my old child photos of me.

How is that sad? Why is your mothers joy sad?


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AyanamiKainetoday at 7:14 PM

Because she will pounder in old memories that never existed in the first place. Instead of cherrying the current times. Past moments of long gone time will be elongated beyond their actual existence.

Imagine a time where a small moment is actually a smaller amount experienced then the remixed one. At one point you will have more memories of fake events, and more emotional beats for said fake events than real ones.

AI videos showing you a second life if you just had chosen a different path.

People will be depressed from it.

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m_fayertoday at 7:38 PM

Because elderly people who never had a connection to tech or sci-fi will have no feel for, and therefore no resistance to the kind of trickery that seems fun but is ultimately corrosive. Cheerfully meddling with the artifacts of memory at that life stage is corrosive.

handbanana_today at 7:21 PM

Why do you assume her joy is the sad part?

breezybottomtoday at 7:12 PM

Memory already declines with age. AI slop threatens to warp those memories further.