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New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die

Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

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  1. Yet another example of a way AI is being used that virtually no one wants! It’s amazing how many untold billions have been burnt on what is ostensibly a consumer product without consulting consumers!

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  2. I'd rather not have a funeral at all than have people generate cringey, lazy slop about me.

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  3. If you can't tell, does it matter? Obituaries aren't eulogies and are mainly there to let people know whose loved one has passed. Newspapers charge by the line so using tech to get the job done efficiently saves money for the bereaved.

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