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AI Obituary Pirates Are Exploiting Our Grief. I Tracked One Down to Find Out Why
Cnet ^ | June 17, 2025 | Joe Supan

Posted on 06/20/2025 1:06:05 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: sonova

You aren’t the only one; met too!


41 posted on 06/20/2025 4:49:00 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Disambiguator

Looked at my AI obit.. Pretty boring...


42 posted on 06/20/2025 4:54:44 PM PDT by dakine
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To: nopardons

AI is involved in your ability to simply post this message. You don’t see it, but it’s there.

AI is involved in telephone service - even a landline.

AI is used to manage the inventory at any store where you shop.

AI is involved in keeping your drinking water clean and delivering your electricity.

And if you should need surgery, it’s possible it will be involved there, too.

The list is endless now. We already depend on it.

The US, and other parts of the world, are also defended by technologies that incorporate AI, and this will be increasingly so in the future:

https://digitaldefynd.com/IQ/ai-use-in-defense-sector/

https://medium.com/@gautamrbharadwaj/how-ai-is-improving-iron-dome-3894cd3668f9

https://medium.com/@ajithr116/the-role-of-ai-in-spacex-exploring-how-musk-and-his-team-use-ai-to-optimize-rocket-design-launch-d5e9963d4094

People on this site seem to think that AI is only in things they can see - like ChatGPT, or customer service chat bots.

It’s already inextricably involved in our everyday lives.


43 posted on 06/20/2025 5:08:16 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

I almost leaned on the nuke model, as it is an apt one.
However, man can control it. Good man, bad man. We are living that world right now, and have been for a long time.

AI in control of nuke, not so good. My opinion.


44 posted on 06/20/2025 5:13:55 PM PDT by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: Jamestown1630
AI is involved in your ability to simply post this message. You don’t see it, but it’s there.
Ha! Point him out, I see nobody here. I'm alone in this room.

is involved in telephone service - even a landline.
Not even close. I either dial it myself or use my contact list. I type all of my texts myself.

AI is used to manage the inventory at any store where you shop.
This one I can believe. They are always out of my Blue Bell Southern Blackberry Cobbler Ice Cream.

AI is involved in keeping your drinking water clean and delivering your electricity.
Call me dubious. I've tried giving up water instead opting for fermented probiotic hops enriched health drinks. And I buy my electricity in buckets, same as everybody else.

And if you should need surgery, it’s possible it will be involved there, too.
That'd be a welcome change from Dr. ShakyHands McGoo. Any surgeon with palsy and tremors should be replaced.

45 posted on 06/20/2025 5:22:04 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I don't have any bad habits. I'm good at them all.)
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To: sonova

I think AI is already involved in almost every aspect of defense.


46 posted on 06/20/2025 5:24:49 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: BipolarBob

Will you be here all week?


47 posted on 06/20/2025 5:26:39 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: nopardons

It’s not about what you look up, or who/what you talk to. It’s about the medium through which you do it.


48 posted on 06/20/2025 5:29:02 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Why ask me? I’m sure AI has the answer you seek.


49 posted on 06/20/2025 5:29:19 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I don't have any bad habits. I'm good at them all.)
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To: BipolarBob

Only if you’ve been booked.


50 posted on 06/20/2025 5:32:09 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630; nopardons
It’s about the medium through which you do it.

First it's AI and now nopardons is using mediums to communicate (with the dead?) What happened to person to person? I sometime think I'm the only sane person left talking to which is why I do it.

51 posted on 06/20/2025 5:34:11 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I don't have any bad habits. I'm good at them all.)
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To: Jamestown1630

OK. Respectfully, I have to sign off.


52 posted on 06/20/2025 5:46:06 PM PDT by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: BipolarBob

If you don’t want any AI involvement in the procedure, ‘Person to Person’ is what happens on a park bench, or in the checkout line at the grocery. I highly recommend those for authentic human communication.


53 posted on 06/20/2025 5:49:37 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
I have a well, so AI has less than NOTHING at all to do with my water, how it is delivered to the inside of my house, nor the equipment.

I market at an independent grocery store, which gets deliveries from 1) local farms and orchards, by real live people, as well as some kind of other company, which happens to not be as good as the one that was being used previously 2) we also by produce directly from local farms.

As far as I know, all recent surgeries have been done by actual human beings, with NOTHING at all to do with any form of AI at all!

Oh come on...AI might be involved with a lot of things that other people do/have; however, I avoid it like the plague ( and I'm talking BUBONIC, not the CCCP FLU! ) whenever and where ever I can!

Yes, I know that there is something ( not really full blown AI ) involved when I'm on the laptop; however, I don't even use it for all THAT much.

54 posted on 06/20/2025 6:11:18 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Ok.


55 posted on 06/20/2025 6:13:56 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
Then anyone or anything is REALLY quite bored following me and is gathering pretty useless info! LOL

And you KNOW, my dear friend, that I run to one of my home libraries, FIRST, when in need of accurate info that I don't have already stored in my brain! hehehehehe

56 posted on 06/20/2025 6:15:46 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

NP, I’m just saying that you couldn’t post anything here without AI.

You couldn’t make a phone call without AI, or watch things on your television.

It’s built into every technology that we use now, and it’s mistaken to think you never use it just because you don’t see it.

Let’s let it rest now.


57 posted on 06/20/2025 6:19:01 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: BipolarBob; Jamestown1630
Hey...I've already, repeatedly told Jamestown, that I TALK TO LIVE HUMAN BEINGS ONLY; UNLESS I AM HANDWRITING LETTERS, WITH A FOUNTAIN PEN AND INK! :-)

And as far as "contacting the dead"...I just talk to them, as I see fit. Sadly, they don't reply, but I DO know that they are looking down on me, from Heaven.

58 posted on 06/20/2025 6:21:12 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

“I have a well, so AI has less than NOTHING at all to do with my water, how it is delivered to the inside of my house, nor the equipment.”

Are you off the grid?


59 posted on 06/20/2025 6:26:13 PM PDT by TexasGator (111 -)
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To: Jamestown1630
T.V. is CRAP; even MASTERPIECE THEATRE has gone down the shitter, so I watch almost NO T.V. at all...ever.

I'm not trying to be argumentative, REALLY I'M NOT, it's just that I think that you might be lumping AI into a lot of things where it doesn't exist and where it might, aren't in things that I have and use...like our well, which is 35 years old.

60 posted on 06/20/2025 6:28:58 PM PDT by nopardons
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