Drew Crecente last spoke to his daughter Jennifer Ann Crecente on February 14, 2006. A day later, Jennifer, a senior in high school who was in an abusive relationship, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, who was later convicted and is serving time in prison. That year, Crescente started a nonprofit in her name to prevent teen dating violence and now routinely monitors any piece of media coverage related to her.
But he was appalled when he received a Google Alert notification at 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday that somebody had created a chatbot on popular AI platform Character AI using his daughter’s yearbook photo and name.
“A grieving father should not have to find out that his dead daughter is being used to try and make money as a chatbot on some website,” he told Forbes. “It shocks the conscience, and it’s unacceptable behavior”…
So he owns his dead daughter’s image? I understand why some people might feel uncomfortable about this, but the other option is controlling how people use chatbots on their own machines, which sounds much worse to me.
His daughter can’t give permission. No one should use her image like that
The alternative isn’t controlling how people use chatbots on their own machines. It’s limiting corporations from profiting off of chatbots that use another person’s likeness.
You don’t need to jump to assuming regulations would have to control what you do on your computer specifically.
If it was from a Google alert, it would have had to be publicly available, right?
that chatbot site dgaf about your machine they make bank off of investors and giving parasocial relationships to 12 year olds