2025 is the year AI is used for just about everything: making music , editing videos , doing classwork , booking reservations , coding , and even bringing people back from the dead. Well, their likeness, at least. These digital resurrections have been used to fight for tougher gun laws , address their own killers at court , and, eventually, to sell you stuff .

NPR reported on the rise of AI deadbots , which are AI avatars of deceased people. As Mashable wrote in May , digital resurrection projects have been in use for a few years, but it's advanced alongside generative AI.

Mashable reported in May on Stacey Wales, who used AI to create a video of her late brother to address the courtroom at the sentencing for the man who killed him in a road rage incident, leading the

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