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As Sam Harris once said.........."Put your hand on a hot stove, don't like it? There's your morality."

Because regardless of how you FEEL about stuff, you can still feel PAIN, and doing anything that reduces/avoids the pain = universal ethics.

NOBODY wants to feel the pain.

Masochists are not yearning for pain. They are chasing perverted pleasure from the dopamine release after spanking, which is the opposite of pain.

Seriously though, are ethics nothing but our universal/biological/evolutionary/genetic attempt to get away from the pain of the body and mind?

Avoiding pain = objective ethics/morality, yes?

Hello, my mom is a funeral director and uses AI in her work. I on the other hand am pretty against generative AI and do not use it unless it’s wired into an app or website but will still try to go around the whole “AI overview” options.

Back to my mom…While using AI to help with computer work is one thing, I’d like to hear everyone’s opinions on one thing she does that rubs me the wrong way. She will take photos of the decedent and run them through ChatGPT to make a portrait of the person and improve lighting, image quality, etc. Despite asking ChatGPT to not alter the appearance of the individual, I do notice minute small changes in the person’s appearance that would be easily recognized by the person’s family that knows the individual better. I find it very much so against my morals to alter the image of a loved one in any way that isn’t traditional editing software that has been around for years. I told her if my obituary photo was ever edited with AI I would haunt my family from the grave 😅

What are everyone’s thoughts? Do you think a funeral director using generative AI to edit descendants’ photos is ethical?