Most people’s reactions to AI fall into two camps: Either AI is the greatest thing ever, or we’re doomed. I fall somewhere in the middle, but what some people are doing with AI is downright creepy.
I was listening to a podcast last night where two celebrities were talking about how Suzanne Somers’ husband has created an “AI twin” of his late wife. And sure enough, he did.
"Obviously, Suzanne was greatly loved, not only by her family, but by millions of people. One of the projects that we have coming up is a really interesting project, the Suzanne AI Twin," Hamel shares.
Hamel shared a demo of the AI at a conference earlier this year. To Hamel, the project is "perfect."
"It was Suzanne. And I asked her a few questions and she answered them, and it blew me and everybody else away," he says. "When you look at the finished one next to the real Suzanne, you can't tell the difference. It's amazing. And I mean, I've been with Suzanne for 55 years, so I know what her face looks like, and when I just look at the two of them side by side, I really can't tell which one is the real and which one is the AI."
I’ve seen tons of AI videos of people like Fred Rogers, Martin Luther King, and Ronald Reagan saying and doing things that they obviously never did, and some of them are surprisingly realistic. They vary in how funny some of them are.
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Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda has had enough of the videos people have been sending her. She wrote on a recent Instagram story, “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on. But please, if you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want.”
“To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to ‘this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that’s enough’, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening,” she added. “You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.”
It reminds me of the trend in the late ‘80s and ‘90s of using clips of dead celebrities in advertisements. I remember Marilyn Monroe selling Chanel No. 5 and think I recall John Wayne hawking beer. There were also the “virtual duets” that were all the rage for a while, like Hank Williams Sr. and Jr. singing “There’s a Tear in My Beer” and Nat “King” Cole and Natalie Cole duetting on “Unforgettable.”
Then there’s Jim Acosta (who is unbearable on his own) “interviewing” an AI version of one of the Parkland Shooting Victims, which was just disgusting. Several churches used an AI video of Charlie Kirk the Sunday after his assassination, which is as idolatrous as it is weird.
And it gets worse. There’s apparently now an app that allows you to chat with an AI Jesus and other biblical figures. Yeah, I bet we can trust computers for sound theology.
LEAP OF FAITH: The “Text With Jesus” app allows users to message AI-generated biblical figures, including Mary, Joseph and Moses. The app's creator says most users are embracing the new way of worship while critics slam it as blasphemous, calling on people to open a Bible… pic.twitter.com/4HTgce3W5H
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 5, 2025
Want to hear from Jesus? Pick up your Bible. Want to remember Charlie Kirk? Check out the thousands of videos of his actual exchanges with people. Do you love those departed stars? Watch their movies and TV appearances. There’s too much good content and truth out there to fall back on AI fakes and lies.
