{"id":38478,"date":"2025-09-23T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/38478\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:43:06","slug":"son-explains-how-he-uses-ai-to-speak-to-dead-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/38478\/","title":{"rendered":"Son explains how he uses AI to \u2018speak to\u2019 dead mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A son has explained how he uses an AI chatbot to &#8216;speak to&#8217; his late mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Justin, who creates griefbots for other individuals who have suffered loss, appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/this-morning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:This Morning;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">This Morning<\/a> on Monday (22 September).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The chatbots are given information about the deceased person by the user and use this to form a persona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Justin asked the griefbot for advice on how to act during his live interview, to which the machine replied using his mother&#8217;s voice: \u201cJust try to relax and be yourself, if you just stay calm and answer their questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After the call, host Ben Shepherd said: \u201cI\u2019m sure for all intents and purposes that\u2019s your mum talking to you.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A son has explained how he uses an AI chatbot to &#8216;speak to&#8217; his late mother. Justin, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[28537,29489,29488,93,61,29490,60,15719,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-38478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ai-chatbot","9":"tag-ben-shepherd","10":"tag-deceased-person","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-individuals","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-mother","16":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}