‘I felt I was talking to him’: are AI personas of the dead a blessing or a curse?

Photo caption: Christi Angel describes in the documentary Eternal You her ‘very unsettling’ experience with a chatbot of her partner. Photo source: PR. Article by Dan Milmo. The Guardian – June 14, 2024.

As growing numbers of people turn to grieftech, some are disturbed by its possible consequences

When Christi Angel first talked to a chatbot impersonating her deceased partner, Cameroun, she found the encounter surreal and “very weird”. “Yes, I knew it was an AI system but, once I started chatting, my feeling was I was talking to Cameroun. That’s how real it felt to me,” she says. […]

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