Mourners can now speak to an Al version of the dead. But will that help with grief?

~ They'd try to make money from your bellybutton lint if they could. Hard pass.

https://apnews.com/article/19820aa174147a82ef0b762c69a56307

@gemswinc 😂I like your take on it! Swindlers gonna swindle.

I mean jeez, it's difficult enough to deal with all of the people who talk to dead people on fb, let alone if they can start posting all of their fake conversations for everyone to pity them🙄

@Yarnchick Not being on fb, that never occurred to me 🙄

@gemswinc lucky you! I'm only there for my extended family and not an active poster, but whoa nelly the times I check it the volume of truly grieving people I see that repeatedly 'talk' to dead loved ones is so sad. Their needs are definitely not being met and this will only exacerbate the dysfunction😕

@Yarnchick Uh oh... though, I must say, I was haunted the year after my husband died. Not crazy. Never posted anything anywhere about it 'til here, 7 years later.

@gemswinc I think grief is such a personal thing, and posting thoughts or remembrance is healthy as you go through the journey. This 'talking' to them as a public thing, not so much.

@Yarnchick I'm a Twitter refugee, was there for 14 years. Never posted boo, heh, heh!

@gemswinc 😂I am as well (10 yrs), but I loved funny twitter & sharing all kinds of silly stuff because we were anonymous-funny. Only 3 people knew me IRL & I miss it sometimes.

@Yarnchick I do too, what it was, not what it is. I met a few folks from Twitter, one became a good friend, we met several times. She has since passed. I only had one friend irl who posted there regularly, in the later years.