Discord announced that it’s open sourcing Avatar Remix, an app that lets users remix each others’ avatars through generative image models. Developers can find the Avatar Remix code on GitHub ...

Additionally, Discord announced a collaborative whiteboard with a text-to-image generator and the creation of a $5 million fund aimed at encouraging developers to build AI tools on Discord.

You know, because digital avatars of lost loved ones speaking by way of bots — bots that in turn are trained on limited, context-less data — is exactly how to preserve their humanity.