{"id":202918,"date":"2025-01-01T12:09:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T18:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/insane-clown-posses-shaggy-2-dope-confronts-ai-version-of-himself"},"modified":"2025-01-01T12:09:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T18:09:02","slug":"insane-clown-posses-shaggy-2-dope-confronts-ai-version-of-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/insane-clown-posses-shaggy-2-dope-confronts-ai-version-of-himself","title":{"rendered":"Insane Clown Posse\u2019s Shaggy 2 Dope Confronts AI Version of Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/insane-clown-posses-shaggy-2-dope-confronts-ai-version-of-himself2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Insane Clown Posse\u2019s Joseph Utsler, better known by his stage persona Shaggy 2 Dope, has an AI clone \u2014 and apparently, he\u2019s a fan.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted on the Google-backed Character. AI service \u2014 which, as a sidebar, <em>Futurism<\/em> has <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/google-character-ai-children-lawsuit\" class=\"\">investigated extensively<\/a>, repeatedly finding <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/character-ai-school-shooters-victims\" class=\"\">horrible things<\/a> \u2014 the ICP cofounder\u2019s digital doppelganger sounds like a slightly robotic version of the real thing.<\/p>\n<p>The effect is so uncanny that Mr. Dope himself decided to hit the AI up and bring it onto his livestreamed vlog, \u201cThe Shaggy Show.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insane Clown Posse\u2019s Joseph Utsler, better known by his stage persona Shaggy 2 Dope, has an AI clone \u2014 and apparently, he\u2019s a fan. Hosted on the Google-backed Character. AI service \u2014 which, as a sidebar, Futurism has investigated extensively, repeatedly finding horrible things \u2014 the ICP cofounder\u2019s digital doppelganger sounds like a slightly robotic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}