'Is AI keeping us from getting the social support that we need?' asks Dr Dan Wolfson. 'I created my mom and talk to her': AI ghosts and deathslop are changing the way we mourn'Is AI keeping us from getting the social support that we need?' asks Dr Dan Wolfson. The rise of AI-generated tributes and bots for'talking' to the dead has experts concerned more people will grieve in isolation T ributes rolled in after the death of Dolly Parton last month. Jack White performed Jolene at a London gig. Kesha sang Old Flames (Can't Hold a Candle to You), a single her mother wrote for the country music titan. Even Pitbull stopped his Madison Square Garden show to memorialize Parton and all the other "powerful women" in the crowd.

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Influential right-wing conspiracy theorists and MAGA-aligned pundits are falsely claiming that the Covid vaccine killed Dolly Parton, the vaccination advocate and philanthropist. Conspiracy theories surrounding singer and philanthropist Dolly Parton's recent death have flooded the internet, referencing everything from satanic rituals to cloning . But one conspiracy theory has dominated all the others: the claim that Parton's death was caused by "turbo cancer" brought on by the Covid vaccine. There is no evidence to support the claim that Parton's death had anything to do with the vaccine. Parton, 80, died after "a short battle with cancer," her family said in a statement.

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The death of country music legend has drawn tributes from both sides of the political aisle, including President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

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