Companies Want to Replicate Your Dead Loved Ones with Robot Clones (opens in new tab)

I'm calling it - there will be a social media site whose entire userbase is AI "replicants" algorithmically generated from the social media and online footprints of dead people.

I'm also calling an entire genre of augmented reality porn based on this as well.

I've seen enough markov IRC log chatters to know where this is going -- any bot clone true enough to the original will end stored in the basement for being too socially inadequate.

This was covered in detail in a series set in the Battlestar Galactica Universe called Caprica.

All the issues are quite well explored there.