Thoughts on this article about using AI for obituaries

[MineralMan]

5. Whatever works, I say.

When both of my parents died on the same day at the age of 96, I needed to write a obituary for the local papers. Both were well-known in the smallish town where they lived. My father was the long time fire chief, as well. Their life story was a wonderful one.

So, I wrote the obituary the same day they died, and got it to the places it needed to get to. It ended up on the front page of two newspapers. Since I have made my living as a professional writer, it was pretty easy for me to do, once I got past the emotional issues involved with writing an obituary for your own parents.

If an AI bot can help someone write an obituary, I see no problem with that. The information to be included is pretty standard and other facts that make an obituary interesting to readers can also be supplied. Putting it all together is the hard part. AI can do that just fine. Maybe not as well as I could. Maybe not a front page obituary.

But, in difficult times, whatever works is just fine, as long as it works.