How AI grief bots are allowing people to commune with the dead
15-08-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca

How AI grief bots are allowing people to commune with the dead

It may seem like something ripped directly from an episode of Black Mirror, but generative AI and large language models are now being used to conjure up the dead, using the massive digital footprints many of us leave behind when we die.
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