I am weirded out but this, I find it horrific, like some kind of mind zombie, leeching humanity from your family members.

Someone somewhere is thinking they're connecting with you and sharing their humanity but they're just shoveling their soul into a machine that is "meticulously documenting" them.

Sorry, but ick.

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kaoD 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To give a different perspective: archival is important. If nobody does this job, generational knowledge is lost at some point.

I talked plenty with my grandpa, but I'm sure he didn't even tell me 20% of his life.

And my other grandpa died when I was still a kid, so I didn't even get to have adult conversations with him.

Imagine making this available to your grandgrandgrandson.

	▲	ssl-3 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, but you're kaoD. You're a bonafide person. You should talk with other people; it's good. (We're chatting right now.) That's quite different from chatting with a bot that pretends to be human. (Do you want to chat with my bot?)

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hypercube33 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I actually think this is cool. How is this different than sitting people down with a camera every day and asking for a new random story? we won't be around forever and documenting it is one way to keep memories alive in people's minds

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nickthegreek 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You are making a lot of assumptions.

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navigate8310 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I hope OP is using some self-hosted local model to document their family archives

	▲	ryang2718 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is actually a really interesting use case for a local model. The writing might be a bit mediocre but it would capture all the information. Parent post really stumbled on a great idea here.