{"id":7353,"date":"2025-12-11T21:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/dead-grandma-2wai-ai\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:35:16","slug":"dead-grandma-2wai-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/dead-grandma-2wai-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Project to Resurrect Dead Grandmas Sparks Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If a stranger told you there\u2019s a chance your Grandma could live forever, would you take it?<\/p>\n

It may seem like an odd question, but it\u2019s one which AI company 2wai is staking its entire existence on. As spotted by The Independent<\/em><\/a>, a recently released commercial for 2wai, titled \u201cPreserve Your Legacy,\u201d has gone viral, thanks to its depiction of a grandmother preserved as an AI avatar.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s getting bigger, see?\u201d a pregnant mother tells her presumably dead mom, who appears as an AI character on her phone. \u201cOh honey, that\u2019s wonderful!\u201d the AI responds. \u201cHe\u2019s listening \u2014 put your hand on your tummy and hum to him. You used to love that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ad is basically showing off 2wai\u2019s core product, a HoloAvatar, which is exactly as dystopian as it sounds. According to the company, HoloAvatars are AI renditions of real-life people, brought to life via a large language model. People weren\u2019t impressed with the idea, to say the least.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to make what you\u2019re doing illegal,\u201d one viewer commented. \u201cMissed the part where the \u2018grandmother\u2019 stops working and tells them to upgrade to the premium version to continue the conversation,\u201d another quipped. <\/p>\n

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Though this particular ad shows off HoloAvatars as a way to preserve your loved ones after they pass, that\u2019s just one use case. Others, the company says, include AI approximations of fictional characters, historical figures, celebrities, and even \u201cdigital twins,\u201d which are billed as<\/strong> a HoloAvatar who \u201clooks and talks like you, and even shares the same memories!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the magic of AI, 2wai lets anyone talk to their favorite creators, brands, and characters in a virtual world that feels real,\u201d the company\u2019s website exclaims. \u201cIs one of you really enough?\u201d<\/p>\n

2wai was founded by Mason Geyser and Disney child star Calum Worthy. According to The Independent<\/em>, which spoke with Geyser, the grandma ad was designed to tick people off, following the footsteps of AI hardware company, Friend<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually give a lot of props to Calum because we\u2019ve put out a lot of different social media content over the last six months of trying to promote the platform, and he really had this idea that: What if we went with a little bit more of a controversial idea?\u201d the CEO told the publication. \u201cAnd we tried to spark this kind of online debate between the two sides, and he really did such a great job with sparking that controversy and getting it out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether he would use his own product to preserve his loved ones, Geyser said that he sees it \u201cmore as a way to just kind of pass on some of those really good memories that I had with my grandparents.\u201d<\/p>\n

So there you have it: if you ever wanted a way to poison the memory of your loved ones with an uncanny replicant, this is the product for you.<\/p>\n

More on death: <\/strong>You Will Never Guess What This Startup Is Turning Human Remains Into<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The post Project to Resurrect Dead Grandmas Sparks Controversy<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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