The Affective Scaffolding of Grief in the Digital Age: The Case of Deathbots.

Contemporary and emerging chatbots can be fine-tuned to imitate the style, tenor, and knowledge of a corpus, including the corpus of a particular individual. This makes it possible to build chatbots that imitate people who are no longer alive — deathbots. Such deathbots can be used in many ways, but...

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Published in:	Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 757 - 770
Main Authors:	Fabry, Regina E., Alfano, Mark
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Aug2024
Subjects:	Digital technology Affect (Psychology) Technological innovations Grief Emotions Chatbots
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