I Built a Talking Digital Avatar of Myself โ and It Raises Hard Questions About AI Clones
A new wave of interactive digital avatars is pushing beyond novelty into a more unsettling frontier: synthetic versions of real people that can speak, answer questions and project authority. In one case, an avatar trained to discuss venture fraud underscored both the utility and the unease of building AI clones that can mimic a personโs voice, judgment and public presence.
