Just when one thinks Artificial Intelligence can’t get any creepier, programmers prove one wrong. The company 2wai has now programmed AI to imitate artificial loved ones in perpetuity via an app. All it takes is a three-minute video of that loved one, and he or she is immortalized in the app for generations to come.
Here’s the ad:
What if the loved ones we’ve lost could be part of our future? pic.twitter.com/oFBGekVo1R
— Calum Worthy (@CalumWorthy) November 11, 2025
One can at least understand the need they are trying to fill. Let’s say you’ve lost a parent. All the things you wanted to say to them and all the milestones you hoped they’d be there for are lost too. This app is one way to make an avatar that sounds like a parent and looks like a parent.
However, if you stop to really think about it, the claim that an avatar can be a sufficient substitute for a loved one is astonishingly arrogant. Speaking personally, there is no way that AI can properly capture the complex, quirky, and kind person that my mother is. No three minutes of video would come even close, particularly because my mother has never been comfortable being in front of a camera.
Nor would I want my child talking to an AI facsimile of my deceased relative. How do we know that this app won’t get hacked by bad actors to steal personal information? How do we know that it isn’t already primed and programmed to manipulate children into doctrines and ideologies that lead to a bad life, like transgenderism?
Some have remarked that this is a horrific form of modern-day necromancy. These avatars may look like a loved one, but they are controlled by the necromancer.
Back at the turn of the 20th century, spiritualism attempted to fill the same void that 2wai is trying to fill. It promised a way to communicate with deceased loved ones. Mediums peddled their abilities and capitalized on bereaved people in this very same manner. Famously, Sir Arthur Conan Doyal, writer of the Sherlock Holmes books, was an avid believer in spiritualism. The illusionist Harry Houdini took the opposite tack, going out of his way to expose the tricks and illusions of these spiritualist medium bad actors.
Here we are once again repeating history, except this time it’s highly sophisticated computer algorithms that we are challenged to debunk.
One final horrifying thought. Avatars might literally replace loved ones some day. Just as AI sex chatbots are taking the place of actual relationships, who’s to say that these avatars won’t replace real-life relationships altogether?
As a nation, we are quietly slipping into a world where everything is artificial. Many of our children are created via IVF. Children and teens are being manipulated into believing that they are the opposite sex and mutilating their bodies to artificially present as the gender that their delusions decree. And now, our loved ones cannot rest in peace because their image, voice, and mannerisms have been copied and downloaded, and the resulting digital ghost is the version that sticks with these kids into their own adulthood.
China is experimenting with growing children in artificial wombs. Companies in the U.S are toying with creating children without the use of a woman’s egg. You can now use any DNA from a person to create new life. We are truly living in a dystopian novel.
This is not progress. It’s a recipe for disaster and societal collapse.
