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 ...

Do some checking to make sure an online obituary is legitimate and the person actually died – or that it's not a fake obituary for you. That's because scammers are using AI-generated fake obituaries ...

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 ...

Two days after Jeff Fargo’s mother died, he lay in bed, crying, at home in Nevada and opened his laptop to ChatGPT. Her friends had asked about an obituary, so for nearly an hour he typed about her ...