Digital Duplicates, Relational Scarcity, and Value: Commentary on Danaher and Nyholm (2024)

Danaher and Nyholm (2024a) have recently proposed that digital duplicates—such as fine-tuned, “personalized” large language models that closely mimic a particular individual—might reduce that individual’s scarcity and thus increase the amount of instrumental value they can bring to the world. In this commentary, we introduce the notion of relational scarcity and explore how digital duplicates would affect the value of interpersonal relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]