Digital clones and Vocaloids may be popular in Japan. Elsewhere, they could get lost in translation, ET Telecom
Digital Clones: In creating a digital double, information about a person is skimmed off social media sites and publicly available records in a massive data collection effort, and stored in the software. The data is constantly updated, keeping in synch with the owners changing habits and tastes.
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