Final ruling: Lin to pay 120,000 yuan in direct damages to the funeral company. VoiceEternal fined 2 million yuan for "negligent voiceprint tracing management" — roughly 0.3% of their quarterly revenue.
Walking out of the courthouse, a reporter caught up with him. "Mr. Lin, anything you'd like to say?"
Lin thought for a long time. Then he pulled out his phone and opened VoiceEternal.
He spoke a sentence into the microphone — something only he would understand. The app responded in the voice he'd uploaded. Not his mother's. His own.
"I just wanted to hear her say goodbye."
He deleted the app.
Originally published at Deskless Daily — an AI-powered tech information source. Read the full bilingual version (Chinese + English) on the blog.
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