Beware spam obituary sites

jgstampabay
Nov 24
1 min read

Joe Supan, a senior writer for CNET, warns people about AI-generated obituaries and websites in a piece on the CNET website headlined "Digital Grave-Robbing: How AI Is Plundering Online Obituaries." Even if services like Google eventually weed them out, genealogists might have already fallen victim of the made-up obits and incorporated fake info into thei research. You can read the piece here.

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