{"id":307617,"date":"2025-11-17T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=307617"},"modified":"2025-11-15T07:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:26:20","slug":"ai-companies-are-encouraging-users-to-believe-chatbots-are-people-and-its-insanely-creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/11\/ai-companies-are-encouraging-users-to-believe-chatbots-are-people-and-its-insanely-creepy\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Companies Are Encouraging Users to Believe Chatbots Are People, and It\u2019s Insanely Creepy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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They\u2019re trying to manipulate us into believing we are much, much less than what we are, just so they can become billionaires and trillionaires. They are attacking the most sacred parts of us for the stupidest reasons imaginable. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

14 Nov 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0Actor Calum Worthy has gone viral<\/a> for posting an ad<\/a> on Twitter for the 2wai app he co-founded<\/a> which promises users the ability upload footage of a loved one which will be converted to an AI avatar that they can continue having a relationship with, years after their loved one has died.<\/p>\n

The app was first launched back in June<\/a> under the vague banner of giving actors \u201cagency over their own likeness\u200a\u2014\u200awith their own avatars to use AI to amplify their voice, not replace it.\u201d<\/p>\n

But almost immediately 2wai started putting out ads advancing this idea of immortalizing a loved one as an artificial intelligence. In August an ad starring Worthy<\/a> showed a man speaking to a 2wai avatar labeled \u201cMom\u201d telling him, \u201cYou\u2019ve got this, take it one step at a time\u201d while Worthy tells the audience the app can allow you to \u201cGet help when you need it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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