Eternal You (2024)

Eternal-You-(2024)
Eternal You (2024)

Since the introduction of ChatGPT and other LLMs, we have begun to see quite a few innovations coming, one of them is the growth of the digital afterlife industry where technology makes it possible to ‘converse’ with AI avatars of the deceased. At the beginning of Eternal You, it appears that the filmmakers may be so idealistic about the many tech bros peddling this technology that they have already become fully committed to the cause. However, Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck soon cast aside the troublingly bright claims of the AI industry’s good intentions and show how products like these came into being and continue to come into being amidst a complex of moral, emotional, and psychological effects.

Eternal You provides a balanced view of the generative A.I technology, how people are using it, and how it has started affecting, sometimes positively or negatively, the mental state of its users. While it allows the C.E.O. to boastfully articulate their corporate vision of this, the documentary goes into a lot of detail about the experiences of some users with different programs and how erratic and uncontrollable these models are even today.

The movie also follows a lady who hires a company to make an AI replication of her father for her children who barely knew their grandfather as well as a man who chats with a virtual photo of his dead fiancé created by a different program. One of these applications might appear to be physically healthier than the other, but what Eternal You does is allow the experiences and the users to speak for themselves as opposed to presenting any sort of predetermined agenda.

In one of the more harrowing and twisted parts of the film, we see a Korean woman leading up to the shooting of the Meeting You documentary, in which she plans on visiting the avatar of her young daughter who recently died. She says that she sometimes has dreams about her daughter and how she scolded her the last time they spoke, however after using the VR environment, she claims her dreams have changed for the better.

However, when taking into account these interplays, whether from the inside of the VR headset or from the outside on the stage surrounded by lots of green screens, one can’t help but ponder the potential negative psychological impact this can have in the long run. For instance, the damage that these programs can inflict becomes all too apparent when one woman’s A.I. representative of her deceased partner insists that his fate is damnation.

Still, some AI ethicists consider the ethical and philosophical issues raised by this technology and the fact that there are no third-party experts that would conduct proper quality control on the product before it launches, Eternal You does not seem to have had enough critique in that context. In the words of one of the depending experts, the right framing for the digital afterlife industry has to be: “It’s not about how to continue being with your dead loved ones, it’s about how to do so better when they are not here.” In light of the absolute unpredictability of the models’ behavior patterns which increasingly appears to be the case, as well as investor biases regarding the foci of much of the research, one cannot tell how excessive the danger is, as well as the risks regarding how the humanity will cope with loss.

However, Block and Riesewick’s film recognizably understands that we’re at the onset of new technology with a fundamental impact on the mental well-being of all of us. This film does not choose to either chastise or idolize technological advancement but rather takes an easygoing, albeit cautious, approach. Eternal You is a film that is both forward-looking and respectful of the new technology.

For More Movies Like – Eternal You (2024) – visit on 123Movies

Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Scroll to Top