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They Can Now Sell You a Chatbot Version of Your Dead Mother. And I Don’t Know How to Feel About It.
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They Can Now Sell You a Chatbot Version of Your Dead Mother. And I Don’t Know How to Feel About It.

Medium·Michael Routhier·24 days ago
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AI resurrection is a real, growing industry. The people using it are grieving. The companies selling it are not. Press enter or click to view image in full size This is what grief actually looks like. Not an algorithm. Not a chatbot. Not a subscription service. This. And that distinction matters more than the tech industry would like you to think. I’ve been trying to write this one for two weeks. Every time I started, I’d get a few paragraphs in and stop. Not because I didn’t have things to say. But because every draft felt like I was either being too clinical about something deeply human, or too emotional about something that deserves careful thought. So I’m just going to write it the way it actually feels. Messy and uncertain and real. There’s a man I know, not a close friend, but someone in the community I’ve built through my work in digital safety. Retired. Seventies. Lost his wife of 44 years about eighteen months ago.…

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