Thanks for encouraging productive discussion! Your original question made me come up with #2 - I couldn't find active development on that specific concept, but

Thanks for encouraging productive discussion! Your original question made me come up with #2 - I couldn't find active development on that specific concept, but I found something pretty amazing. "Deepfake therapy" lets therapists simulate the presence of dead or non-cooperative people [1]. A study showed positive results when sexual violence victims could safely discuss with a deepfaked version of their abuser [2]. [1]: https://deeptherapy.ai/ https://deeptherapy.ai/ [2]: Initial development of perpetrator confrontation using deepfake technology in victims with sexual violence-related PTSD and moral injury: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.882957/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.8829...