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When grief and AI collide: These people are communicating with the dead

July 11, 2024 samplereality
By virtue of teaching my "Death in the Digital Age" course, my beat has become AI griefbots that appear to let you talk to dead loved ones. Spoiler 1: they do not. Spoiler 2: capitalism.
Tagged AI, death, dig215, links

Sir Arthur and the Fairies (The Public Domain Review)

June 11, 2024 samplereality
In the 1920s Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of that most rational of detectives, Sherlock Holmes, published "The Coming of the Fairies"—about the incontrovertible photographic evidence of the existence of fae folk.
Tagged death, dig215, fairies, ghosts, links, photography, spirits, syllabus

What happens to your games after you die depends on your store of choice

June 10, 2024 samplereality
What happens to your games after you die? If it’s a digital game, chances are that you don’t even own the game to begin with…
Tagged death, dig215, links, syllabus, videogames

Voices of the dead: shooting victims plead for gun reform with AI-voice messages

February 25, 2024 samplereality
Voices of people lost to gun violence have been re-created using AI to call for action, now six years to the day after the Parkland shooting that killed 17
Tagged AI, death, dig215, links, syllabus

The rise of obituary spam

February 12, 2024 samplereality
Obituary clickbait. The worst of two separate worlds. Add to the Death in the Digital Age syllabus
Tagged death, dig215, links, Spam, syllabus

Amazon Alexa Wants to Deepfake Your Grandma

June 22, 2022June 22, 2022 samplereality
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Deep Nostalgia edition | by Marisa Parham | salt.codes

March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 samplereality
Tagged AI, death, dig215, glitch, links, syllabus

He couldn’t get over his fiancee’s death. So he brought her back as an A.I. chatbot

July 24, 2021July 24, 2021 samplereality
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The Ethics of a Deepfake Anthony Bourdain Voice in “Roadrunner”

July 18, 2021July 18, 2021 samplereality
Tagged AI, death, links, syllabus
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