The ethics and absurdity of the digital twin. After writing more than one article a day for the last 23 years, I’ve accumulated a body of text large enough to train an AI model that could convincingly write “like me.” With today’s technology, it would not be difficult to build a system capable of generating opinions that sound as if they came from Enrique Dans—an algorithmic professor that keeps publishing long after I’m gone.
Soon, anyone with enough data will be able to build a digital version of themselves. But should they?
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