AI chatbots are increasingly being utilized by funeral companies to generate obituaries for the deceased, representing a new trend in the death care industry. At the National Funeral Directors Association conference, the use of AI in this sphere was a significant topic. The appeal of AI-generated obituaries lies in their ability to ease the burden of expression during grieving. AI solutions such as CelebrateAlley aim to enable heartfelt tributes by guiding users to articulate their feelings about lost loved ones using technology, thus emphasizing human connection despite the machine's involvement.
"Someone did stand up and say they thought it was the greatest advancement in funeral-home technology since some kind of embalming tool," Lynch told WaPo. "Which I thought was maybe a bit hyperbolic."
Sonali George, founder of an AI obituary generator called CelebrateAlley, told that AI functions as an 'enabler of human connection.' "Imagine for the person who just died, [wouldn't] that person want their best friend to say a heartfelt tribute that makes everybody laugh, brings out the best, with AI?"
The appeal of an AI obituary is straightforward, and follows the trend of AI and other Silicon Valley tech offering to make our lives as frictionless as possible, down to the most quotidian forms of human interaction.
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