Talk to your dead grandmother thanks to AI

Spectator World ^ | 12/07/2025 | Mary Wakefield

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Jesus come back soon.

[No name given]

My thoughts exactly.

[Veto!]

My grandmother was my favorite person in the world. Just took my daaughter to New Orleans so she could see the lovely Inn on the park that she managed. A wonderful lesson in family history.

[mass55th]

No thanks...I’ll wait to talk to her once I leave this earth.

[mass55th]

"Jesus come back soon."

If AI is so good, why not just bypass our grannies, and talk to Jesus instead. Maybe he'll give us a tip on who's going to win the Super Bowl 🤣

[Gman]

AI videos of the dead are creepy.

[TonyM]

PLEASE stop calling everything AI. This is just another program running routines that it was told to do. There is nothing “artificial” about it. Now if it just decided on its own to start sending you message or e-mails posing as your granny then that might very well be considered AI. But not this! We may as well start referring to old Pac Man arcade machines as AI at this point.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Yes, Jesus could do that. He's more powerful than Chuck Norris.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

If it looks like an AI, swims like an AI, and talks like an AI, then it probably is AI.

[BipolarBob]

There was a Twilight Zone episode where Billy Mumy did the same thing.

[Jamestown1630]

'Unicorns can’t fly. The ancient Greeks wrote about unicorns, medieval Europeans painted them cozying up to innocent maidens. Thousands of years of unicorns and no one’s ever given them wings. Baby Charlie’s AI grandma is feeding him AI slop.'

That's hilarious. The author is talking about unicorns as if they're real, and taking offense at ahistorical assumptions about them.

Each new technology that humans have developed has scared some of the population. This one is just another, and things like 'AI Grandma' will be another related fad that will come and go. Human beings adapt to these things and develop understanding as to exactly what they are, and exercise judgment about them.

I have a tape recording of my Grandmother telling her life history; it was made almost 40 years ago, when she was still alive. I'm sure that seems 'freaky' to some people, too...

[proust]

I don’t know exactly where the creepy line is but I know this crosses it.

[waterhill]

The phone.

[Jamestown1630]

I see it as just another fairy tale; and probably a lot more benign than many of the old traditional ones.

[real saxophonist]

My dad's parents and my mom's dad all died when I was pretty young, don't have much memory of them.

My mom's mom lived until I was in my late teens. We went to visit her a lot.

I don't need any damn AI to talk to any of them.

[stars & stripes forever]

https://patburt.com/

[Dr. Sivana]

I always thought the AI version of Jor-El in the Superman movies was extremely lame.

[mass55th]

🤣🤣🤣

[Jamestown1630]

What you ‘need’ may be very different from what somebody else may ‘want’.

If you showed a photo of your grandmother to a child today, the child would know that the photo was not a real person. If I played tape recordings of my grandmother to a child today, no child would believe that my dead Granny was in the room.

When kids watch movies these days, they know that ‘Gollum’ isn’t real, and that the flying creeatures in ‘Avatar’ are just cinematic visual effects. They’re going to understand the same about this. Unless a kid is really subintelligent, they pick this stuff up by a kind of osmosis, and always have.

This is just a very advanced form of Disney ‘animatronics’, to me. I don’t think many find the ‘Hall of Presidents’ creepy.