AI-Generated Obituaries Are Reportedly Intensifying Grief for Bereaved Families
July 7, 2024
AI-generated obituaries on various websites are reported to have compounded the grief of bereaved families by spreading incorrect and unauthorized information about their loved ones. These obituaries, produced without the families' knowledge, often contain errors and appear on ad-filled sites, exacerbating the emotional distress of the grieving process.
- Alleged deployer
- obitsupdate, bnn, the-thaiger, fresherslive
- Alleged developer
- unknown
- Alleged harmed parties
- bridget-todd, bridget-todd's-family, chris-mohney, chris-mohney's-family, bereaved-families
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/752
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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