Me and @sammarger talked about what a machine readable wishes could do for #social death. Mentioning #griefbots in the #fosdem presentation
https://machinereadablewishes.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/wishes-on-the-fediverse/
Well its no joke... #Meta was granted a patent around same space of grief bots but took it to a super creepy
Meta patented an #AI that lets you keep posting from beyond the grave
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted-patent-for-ai-llm-bot-dead-paused-accounts-2026-2
It's official. We are living in the Black Mirror.
Justin Harrison started You, Only Virtual (YOV) after his mother was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. The company began to preserve this relationship with his mother, building a digital avatar of her – known as a Versona – for after she passed.
Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińska, a research fellow at the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, explores how new technologies like "AI" chatbots are reshaping our understanding of death, loss and grief.
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Meinung: :/
Tech capitalist 1: Grief is a terrible thing, isn't it?
Tech capitalist 2: Totally. I mean, how on earth do you monetise it?
Tech capitalist 1: Ah, I'm glad you asked...
If you had the opportunity, would you generate a virtual digital human of a loved one who has passed on by utilizing AI tools?
Would you want to prevent this being done after you die?
People have done this to hold "conversations" for grief and other personal reasons.
Ian Forrester | @cubicgarden
The-14
Brad Rosenheim
botwiki.org
🐦🔥nemo™🐦⬛ 🇺🇦🍉
Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦
jordi 
Annie in Progress