Thoughts on this article about using AI for obituaries

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8. I appreciate your thoughts

And your comments on AI are thoughtful and well articulated.

All I can say is that this was a one off for me. I value my writing capabilities and would not generally hand them off to anyone let alone an AI.

I guess I just don't really think of an obituary as a very creative process. They are so unique in format and structure that it does not feel natural. If anything, I think my writing of it would have gone outside of the boundaries of what is typical. Not that there would be anything wrong with that but the goal was something fairly traditional.

And I don't want to undersell my role in it. I supplied 90% of the content and the AI simply provided the framework to put that into the very specific format that Obits follow.

As to letting someone else do it instead...I don't believe there was anyone suitable. There were probably not more than 5 other people who would even be close enough to be able to and they were all no better suited than me from a capability, time, grief perspective. I certainly wouldn't feel any better about the authenticity of the action if I had outsourced it to someone more distant from my Dad.

Thanks for your thoughts and I will keep them in mind.