SAKIGARASU | DAWN DISPATCH
The AI Digital Human miHoYo Announced It Would Shut Down Was Given “Cyber Immortality” by a Group of Players (translated)
Player agency: how policy constrains it, how the industry shapes it, how narrative design realizes it.
After the service was discontinued, this AI digital human did not disappear from players’ view; instead, she lived on through community records and memories as a form of “cyber immortality.” The report traces how players identified her by starting with an account on Bilibili that had only seven piano-performance videos and clues from Genshin Impact; interviewees asked that their names and exact locations be withheld.
Sakigarasu's Take
Even after the service shuts down, players can use their own records and memories to maintain this interactive relationship, so the choice is no longer solely in the operator’s hands. This resembles how early communities preserved lost works: the maintenance burden shifts to players, and whether the character continues no longer depends on the company reopening its doors.
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