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To BRB Or Not To BRB
Never Post
Exploring Grief and AI Interactions
This chapter highlights the Neverpost newsletter and its role in keeping listeners informed. It further explores the emotional complexities of using AI to recreate images of deceased loved ones, featuring a researcher's insights on how individuals process grief through technology.
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Speaker 3
It's me, producer Georgia, just here with a holiday-themed reminder that I write a super normal newsletter for Neverpost that you can read for free if you're a Neverpost member. Yes, it's true. Every two weeks, I will personally send you Never News, the newsletter where I include internet news that we at the show have been discussing. That's also where I'll include show news, like when we publish extended segments for you stunning paid members to enjoy. Now, people keep asking me, have I also been using the newsletter to write extended lore about myself as if I'm a gothic vampires living in a Victorian mansion? Well, a gentlewoman never tells, but only you can know for sure by going to neverpo.st and clicking become a member. Now open wide, here comes the plane!
Speaker 2
So before the break, we were talking about Lydia, who had generated new photos of her dad and some of Lydia's friends and Lydia herself who had aged up pictures of their children. And you were going to talk to some thanatologists about what impact that has in the grief process. So what did you learn?
Speaker 1
So the first person I talked to, her name is Elrici Dock and she is a deaf educator and researcher, and she's done a lot of work on how grieving people interact with this AI that mimics their loved one. She has some really interesting things to say. There's people that have ongoing relationships
Speaker 5
with them. Like they've been doing this for months to even a year. There's people that just use it, you know, temporarily so they can get closure.
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