Obituaries for writer Deborah Vankin popped up online in January, complete with morbid images and flattering prose. In videos accompanying the announcements, “news anchors” discussed her death and ...
The rush to monetize grief leads to the creation of AI obituaries, turning personal loss into clickbait and exposing the dark side of online memorials. Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering ...
The channel, which first appeared on YouTube in November of last year, has already produced 98 videos that discuss the imagined deaths of high-profile figures. “What level of cyberpunk dystopia is a ...