Workflow
We Tracked Down an AI Obituary Pirate to Find Out Why They're Exploiting Our Grief
CNETยท2025-07-16 12:01

Obituaries have become much more than a section in your local newspaper. Most are actually available online and these days there are thousands and thousands released on the internet every single day. This obituary, however, happens to be fake and it also happens to be mine.Now, of course, I wasn't the victim of an actual scam. I did not die of being too cool. But we put this together to illustrate a point that fake AI generated obituaries are now everywhere.People grieving a loved one often post about it on ...