This feels of a piece with modern mainstream White America’s basic refusal to grieve. Hired mechanical mourners would be better because they would acknowledge on some basic level that mourning is worth doing
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if AI can't wail and throw itself on my casket I don't want it anywhere near my funeral.
aug 4, 2025, 1:40 pm • 1 0 • view
I say from a place of great frustration with the way my own family, close and extended, deals with all of this
aug 4, 2025, 1:38 pm • 3 0 • view
Just went to one yesterday and there was a very nice poem read out about the deceased. It was "written" by a person, but then it was "AI'd" so to me, that just ruined it. Words were the same, but knowing it was written/edited/changed by a robot makes it suddenly empty, meaningless and plastic.
aug 4, 2025, 2:11 pm • 1 0 • view