‘AI death calculator’ creators issue urgent warning about frighteningly accurate tool
NY Post
Search for your death date — at your own peril.
Creators of Life2vec, the scarily accurate death calculator invented by US and Danish scientists, are warning of a new threat to those curious about learning when they kick the bucket — copycat “de-terminator” apps that hijack personal information.
“We are aware of Life2vec social media accounts, and there is at least one fraudulent website,” the creators warned while describing these morbid masqueraders, Metro reported.
For the uninitiated, Life2vec works by using ChatGPT technology to foretell when people will bite the dust based on select details from an individual’s life — including income, profession, residence and health history.
“We use the fact that in a certain sense, human lives share a similarity with language,” Sune Lehmann, lead author of a December 2023 study, told The Post. “Just like words follow each other in sentences, events follow each other in human lives.”
Most frighteningly, this digital prophet of doom can determine life expectancy correctly 78% of the time.
