Awful. Just awful. A parent of mine just recently passed away and I miss them every day. I would never do this ghoulish thing.
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This is an episode of Black Mirror
“Secure your soul.”
You get us a helicopter, I’ll grab the nuke.
Automating the closing of accounts and whatnot for the deceased is a good idea. Everything else... not so much. I don't think many people would want a AI chatbot pretending to be them when they're gone.
Pretty sure this is how Pantheon started
Pretty sure this is how religion started