How the digital ghost is often a lie—a highlight reel of a life that leaves the living comparing their messy reality to a dead person’s perfect, frozen-in-time feed.
Analyze startups that use AI to scrape a deceased person’s texts and emails to create a chatbot that "talks" like them. Is this a healthy tool for closure or a digital desecration of the dead? How the digital ghost is often a lie—a
Humanity needs a "Digital Bill of Rights for the Deceased." We must decide if we want to be remembered by the algorithms we fed or by the privacy we maintained, before the platforms decide for us. before the platforms decide for us.