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AI can now simulate dead loved ones, but effects on grieving process are unknown

When Michael Bomer learned he had terminal colon cancer, he teamed up with Robert LoCascio, CEO of AI-powered legacy platform Eternos, to create an interactive, artificially intelligent version of himself. Eternos is partnering with other grief-related AI companies, including StoryFile and HereAfter AI, to help people get through the mourning process, though it’s unclear what […]

How scammers have sunk to a new low with an AI obituary scam targeting the grieving

As if scammers couldn’t get any lower, a new online scam is taking advantage of people who are grieving. This is a bizarre pirate scam that uses artificial intelligence to collect data and build fake obituary websites, exploiting the information of deceased people to defraud vulnerable victims. A woman grieving at a graveyard. (Kurt “Cyber […]

Transgender killer, Moses Lopez, smirks at grieving family of slain Oregon cab driver

Oregon killers grinned as the grieving family of the taxi driver they stabbed to death spoke in court, refusing to take responsibility for last year’s Easter Sunday tragedy. Moses J. Lopez, 30, who identifies as transgender, was sentenced Wednesday to 22 years in prison for stabbing to death Portland radio cab driver Reece Lawhon, 43. […]