Grieving people prefer AI bots that speak as dead loved ones, study suggests
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First-person "reincarnations" compelled people more than third-person "representations." A new study from the University of Colorado Boulder examined how people emotionally engage with "generative ghosts" — AI chatbots trained to simulate deceased loved ones. The study found that users generally preferred bots that spoke as the deceased in the first person ("reincarnation") over those …
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