Resurrecting the Dead Using AI: What Are Deadbots and Why Are They Stirring Ethical Debate?
Aug 28, 2025 - 14:00

Deadbots are trained on the digital footprints of an individual, such as text messages, emails, voice recordings, videos, social media profiles, and more. A large language model (LLM) is trained on this dataset, and it can generate responses that appear similar to what the person would have said, in the manner that they would have said.