Welcome to Bitching & Mourning, the podcast about grief that will never ask you to write an obituary using chatGPT. Today we’re talking about how AI proponents are encouraging people to use the technology for all kinds of death & grief stuff, from writing obituaries to pretending to be your dead dad in a therapy session. Yikes!

Sources for this episode:

• ‘The Dead Have Never Been This Talkative’: The Rise of AI Resurrection - Time
• Can Digital Ghosts Help Us Heal? - Scientific American
• AI Is Now Writing Obituaries—and Business Is (Unfortunately) Good - Vice
• Digital Grave-Robbing: How AI Is Plundering Online Obituaries - CNET
• Mother Reportedly Doesn’t Know Her Son Died Because She’s Been Talking to an AI Version of Him - Futurism
• Family shows AI video of slain victim as an impact statement — possibly a legal first - NPR
• How to draft a will to avoid becoming an AI ghost—it’s not easy - Ars Technica

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