Is there an AI for talking to my dead relatives?
KINDA · partially, with duct tapePartly, and the two halves feel very different. One approach recorded interviews while your relative was still alive and built a voice avatar from them — oddly lovely, until the best-known app doing it shut down in 2026. The other simulates anyone, living or dead, from a short text description for about ten dollars, and is something else entirely.
the catchA language model doing an impression of your mother is not your mother, and grief researchers keep finding that the people who most need that distinction are the least able to hold onto it.
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