Exploring the Emotional Impact of AI After Loss

Contributing producer Victoria Dominguez attempts to understand the practice of digitally resurrecting deceased loved ones using artificial intelligence. Also: home movies.

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Intro Links

• People searching X for updates on California's largest wildfire encounter torrent of porn spam – SF Gate
• I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Fraud – YouTube
• MrBeast employee hits back against whistleblower who called YouTube star a ‘fraud’ – Metro
• The news about MrBeast 'Beast Games' is disturbing – Rosanna Pansino, TikTok
• More 'Beast Games' Allegations Break My Heart – Rosanna Pansino, TikTok
• MrBeast 'Beast Games' Keeps Getting Worse… – Rosanna Pansino, TikTok
• Hoarding Chocolate, Seizures, and Broken Bones — Messages Depict Bad Conditions on 'Beast Games' Project – Distractify via MSN
• ‘Skibidi Toilet’ Film and TV Franchise in the Works From Michael Bay, Adam Goodman — Listen to the Exclusive Interview – Variety 

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BRB AI Links

• BRB2ME -- https://btwinai.com/bring-mom-back

Find Tori: 

• Press Start Podcast (Episode 106, ft. Mike Rugnetta) 
• Twitter: @Tori_as_always
• Website: vdominguez.net

Find Elreacy Dock:

• Website: https://www.elreacydock.com/

Find Elizabeth Schandelmeier:

• Website: Howling Lion Grief Support

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. 

One winter, he held a rope, lowered me 

by the ankles to the wells bottom. 

I ascended upside-down through the dark thermometer 

with a blood orange in my teeth. He had a beard 

of new snow. I held cold to his pant leg 

while our dog left and snapped at a sound 

in the air only he could hear. When I fell 

in love, he reached out to me and held me down