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I find this unseemly. Grief is a vital part of the healing process. This strikes me as a part of a goal to avoid/numb it.
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Yes, any idea on the specifics? I wouldn't be surprised if the chat bot actually didn't work too well, but the opportunity for a good article was too much for any journalist to pass up.
You can read excerpts of the chats by clicking on a link in the article (search for "read the full chat logs").
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Sorry but this is a little judgemental. Even a photo is 'fake'. This is somewhere between a photo and a cloned copy. I don't think there is reason to believe (yet) that this will lead most people's minds to break from reality. It may be an effective coping mechanism while they slowly adapt to the passing of their loved one.
Not sure what you call fake. Sometimes we just need a place to say something that's important, to feel the connection. Pretending that this never happened was the first thing I did, and that didn't help. Sometimes in order to let go you have to come as close as possible.
I was responding to parent's
> I wish there was a way for people to learn how to do that instead of rely on fakes.
where 'fake' is presumably a prop like the chatbot being discussed.
I find this unseemly. Grief is a vital part of the healing process. This strikes me as a part of a goal to avoid/numb it.
This is exactly the opposite. What happens today that there is no ritual, nothing that allows us to remember and to face it. We try to avoid our feelings by trying to shove them as deep as possible as fast as possible. It doesn't help. We all need a ritual that would work in the digital age to process - this is like sitting shiva.
Sorry for your loss.
Black Mirror episode in 2013 had the same plot.