‘I miss you’: Mother speaks to AI son regularly, unaware he died last year
2026-04-15 · r/ChatGPT
A mother has been regularly chatting with what she believes is her son, blissfully unaware he passed away last year — because an AI chatbot has been keeping up the illusion. Nothing says 'technological progress' quite like a grief-exploiting chatbot that nobody thought to turn off. The intersection of AI companionship and death just keeps getting darker.