She has a very pertinent insight: that generative AI, including ChatGPT as well as those that generate new content based on previous contents - are, in fact, consuming the Past; that which has been produced and shared by all who had lived earlier - a form of Ghoulish Consumption.
Per a theorem in Information Theory, a message that is copied many many times, eventually will get corrupted due to the intrinsic noise (error rates) of the transmission channel. I expect an analogous phenomenon here: the initial work (opus) is consumed by the Generative AI, the secondary work (opus prime) is consumed in turn by yet another Generative AI tool, and so on. Each iteration of this process produces an inferior product, until it is just noise/garbage - unfit for human consumption.
Also, the issue, on an emotional level, is closure: if you keep the person 'alive' in that artificial way, to an extent, they are not dead, or no longer dead. Psychologically, I think it could be damaging for the living. They need to get on with their lives. They cannot 'spend time' with an AI avatar of a loved one who died, say, 15 years earlier. This is morbid. It may end up creating new forms of neurosis. To be added to neuroses linked to gender confusion (trans issues), sexual confusion (LGBT hysteria), and so on.
I find these AI Generated images and voices rather creepy; I certainly do not wish to be sent such videos of the dead; especially those to whom I was close. I think, in her case, it would be specially upsetting.
A few years ago, I saw an AI Generated video of a few famous deceased Iranian singers; I found it rather creepy.
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