In one shady corner of YouTube, users are uploading videos of themselves summarizing the obituaries of strangers, sometimes fabricating details about their deaths. They’re known as “obituary pirates.” ...

Obituaries for writer Deborah Vankin popped up online in January, complete with morbid images and flattering prose. In videos accompanying the announcements, “news anchors” discussed her death and ...

We can only hope that this unfortunate situation doesn’t affect you or anyone you care about. If, unfortunately, you have died, there’s little your loved ones can do to prevent someone from exploiting ...

First, let us offer our condolences for your loss, and we hope these step-by-step instructions makes things a little easier for you during your time of grief. To submit an obituary announcement in ...

The rush to monetize grief leads to the creation of AI obituaries, turning personal loss into clickbait and exposing the dark side of online memorials. Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering ...

The funeral director said “AI” as if it were a normal element of memorial services, like caskets or flowers. Of all places, I had not expected artificial intelligence to follow me into the small, ...