When Your Avatar is Younger than You

I am seeing this as a universal, built-in prejudice of programmed AI avatars — those characters we can create and design to look sort of like ourselves. Many of my friends are using them on their Medium blogs to illustrate their stories.

It is not their fault that they have no control over the options given them. Try as they might, the oldest avatar they can create is that of a healthy 60 year-old.

Which is not exactly honest for those of us flirting with 80.

Flattering, yes. Honest, no.

It seems that even AI worships youth. Or is programmed to believe that we are too egotistical or deluded to handle the truth. A smooth-skinned human of 60 looks nothing like one approaching 80.

But this is simply a reflection of our American culture. Old people are ignored.

With the singular exception, of course, of our President — whose smooth-skinned, muscular superhero avatars fill up the pages of his Truth Social account.

Would anyone care to speculate on degrees of delusion? If one avatar indicates a mild personal break with reality, then what does an ongoing series of them say?