The Rise of AI Tools That Write About you When you die
The Washington Post reports on the use of AI obituary generators.
Irina Raicu, director of internet ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, said in an interview that she worries about the “flattening effect” that could stem from people outsourcing their most emotional moments to unfeeling machines. A “generic simulacrum” of a memorial can’t capture the full color of a person’s relationships and experiences, she said, or offer the kind of real sorrow that can lead to closure for the people they left behind.
Raicu says, in a traditional obituary, “you can actually see the person through the writer’s eyes, and that’s what makes it so powerful."
Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by The Washington Post.