Incident 752: AI-Generated Obituaries Are Reportedly Intensifying Grief for Bereaved Families

Description: 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.

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Alleged: unknown developed an AI system deployed by Obitsupdate , BNN , The Thaiger and FreshersLive, which harmed Bridget Todd , Bridget Todd's family , Chris Mohney , Chris Mohney's family and Bereaved families.

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Incident ID

752

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Incident Date

2024-07-07

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Daniel Atherton

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AI-written obituaries are compounding people’s grief

fastcompany.com

fastcompany.com · 2024

"Where do I even start?" says Bridget Todd, the creator and host of the podcast There are No Girls on the Internet."It's just been a real motherfucker. I feel like I'm still processing it all."

In early July, Todd lost her mother Carolyn To…

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.