A mechanism or tactic · 2020 · AI
Grief as a product surface
The feature requests of a dead person, the licensing, the posthumous releases, the reunion tour built from a member who cannot appear, and the deepfake resurrection that follows within a year of every death.
There was a widely held assumption that you cannot monetise grief because the bereaved will not tolerate it. That assumption was wrong, and the gap between what the industry expected and what happened is one of the more reliable findings in this whole file.
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