#2wai

@comicsands.com.web.brid.gy

3 months ago

Former Disney Star Sparks Backlash With His New AI App That Clones Your Dead Loved Ones __Saying goodbye to our loved ones and dealing with the grief of losing them is never easy, and pretending otherwise is probably not a good idea. Former Disney star Calum Worthy wants to cash in on that, however. The actor may have once celebrated genuine friendship, music, and laughs during his time as Dez on _Austin & Ally_, but people are pretty convinced that he's gotten lost in the sauce, now that he's a co-founder for a very dystopian—and, dare we say, _Black Mirror_ -infused—company. **Last week, Worthy posted a morally convoluted question on Twitter (X):** > _"What if the loved ones we've lost could be part of our future?"_ A key part of the human experience is that it doesn't last forever and that we all have to say goodbye sometime. The fact that life is fleeting is what makes it precious. But paired with Worthy's question was a video of a pregnant woman, speaking via video to her elderly mother on the phone, about her future baby. Later, when the baby boy is ten months old, the woman is on the phone with her mother again, but the new grandma appears to be in the same outfit as before. Throughout the rest of the video, the child continues to grow up. We see him talking to his grandmother—but we see that she never appears to age or even change outfits. The end of the video flashes back to the mom, pre-pregnancy, recording a video of her mother in real time, ostensibly to upload to a platform called "2wai," a play on "two-way calling," that allows users to continue speaking to them after they are gone. **You can watchthe commercial here:** > — (@) **In afollow-up tweet, Worthy said of the platform:** > _"At 2wai, we're building a living archive of humanity, one story at a time."_ > _"It all starts with the social network for avatars: the 2wai app."_ > _"Try the 2wai beta on the App Store. Android coming soon."_ > — (@) According to the details on the 2wai website, beta users will receive access to the AI avatar of Calum Worthy "himself," and other familiar names, like William Shakespeare and Frida Kahlo. **Though Worthy spoke highly of the platform, fellow X users found the cofounder's concept to be creepy.** > — (@) > — (@) > — (@) **Others agreed and also thought it cheapened the human existence.** > — (@) > — (@) > — (@) > — (@) > — (@) > — (@) **Some cited a _Black Mirror_ episode titled "Be Right Back," in which a grieving woman took advantage of a service that allowed people to stay in touch with their deceased loved ones, all so she could keep talking to her late boyfriend****.** > — (@) > — (@) > — (@) > — (@) > — (@) Arguably, the best thing we can do to keep our loved ones with us is to keep their memory alive in the form of photographs, videos, mementos, and sharing stories. The idea of depending on a platform to anticipate what they might have said and how they might have behaved is nothing short of dystopian.

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Thinkronicity ™

@thinkronicity.bsky.social

3 months ago

AI app promises to let you talk with the dead YouTube video by ABC News

#2WAI Chat with the dead. Wow that is a profit model, you 'live forever' and someone profits off of you.
#AI #BlackMirror #ABCNews
youtu.be/sQ5p_3Ps_pA?...

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Thinkronicity ™

@thinkronicity.bsky.social

3 months ago

A new AI app that lets you “talk” to deceased loved ones YouTube video by Kamara Daughtry

1. YES this app is real.
2. No way this can turn out bad.

Yes this idea is a couple years old from Storyfile AI originally, from a couple years ago, maybe you saw Joe Rogan yap about it. But a new #AI company #2WAI allows conversations with... the dead.
#AIAfterlife

youtube.com/shorts/pOn7h...

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Andy Firr

@andyfirr.bsky.social

4 months ago

#2wai #socialnetwork #ai #artificialintelligence #avatar | Andrew John Firr What if loved ones we’ve lost could be part of our future? My apologies to be blunt but this is just awful. As somebody (like everyone reading this who has lost close relatives), psychologically I c...

My thoughts on #2wai not positive! www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

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Artist Risa Blair

@artistrisablair.bsky.social

4 months ago

Video: The app that allows you to interact with avatars of dead loved ones | Daily Mail Online In a post on X, Mr Worthy shared a disturbing advert for his new app, writing: 'What if the loved ones we've lost could be part of our future?' Mr Worthy added that his company, co-founded with Hollyw...

OMG #ai #nothealthy #2wai

www.dailymail.co.uk/video/scienc...

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

@lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

4 months ago

Original post on mastodon.social

Torment Nexus News;

"The video then cuts back to an earlier time, which shows the woman recording her mother for 3 minutes to input her likeness into the AI app. This has all been one big advertisement for: 2wai.

“What if the loved ones we’ve lost could be part of our future?” Worthy captioned […]

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Every Film Now

@everyfilmnow.bsky.social

4 months ago

2wai app launches AI avatars - even digital twins of deceased loved ones.

• 3-min video + FedBrain™ creates real-time, lifelike talks
• Preserve voices & stories for family legacies
• Full creator control - ethical & meaningful
• Out now on iOS, Black Mirror vibes

#2wai #AIAvatars #FedBrain

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The Future of Meetings

@futuremeetings.bsky.social

6 months ago

4) 2WAI 2021:
📖 www.astroscu.unam.mx/rmaa/RMxAC.....

We took part in the #2WAI workshop focusing on #accessibility in #astronomy, presenting a view of #TFOM with specific addressing of today, tomorrow, future in the context of more accessible academic collaboration 👐 #TFOM5YL

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