deathbot

plural deathbots

1. colloquialartificial intelligenceA chatbot created to impersonate a deceased person, based on their digital remains, such as messages, voice notes, and images.

   Train a chatbot off a dead person’s emails or texts, and you can forever message a digital approximation of them. There is enough demand for these “deathbots” that many companies, including HereAfter AI and StoryFile, specialize in them.

   2024 July 31, Kate Lindsay, “No One Is Ready for Digital Immortality”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2024

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   But deathbots may also provide “sanitised, rosy” representations of a person, said Cholbi. For example, someone creating a deathbot of their late granny may choose not to include her casual racism or other unappealing aspects of her personality in material fed into an AI generator.

   2025 August 10, Harriet Sherwood, “Digital resurrection: fascination and fear over the rise of the deathbot”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2025

   Synonyms: griefbot