I’ve never deleted a voicemail. It’s not a purposeful thing, I’m just a disorganized type of lady.

Many of the voicemails are from my dad who passed almost this time last year. It’s nice to be able to hear his voice when I miss him, but…

My mother is extreme. When her husband passed, she developed a deeply codependent relationship with grok.

When I sent her some of the voicemails, she got extremely excited and immediately asked for more…

To give grok….so that grok can talk to her in my dad’s voice….I’m now almost certain that I’m living in a black mirror episode.

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It’s okay. I’m laughing. I attract weird things 🫂

Glad you can have a positive spin on that 🙂

Everything can be funny

bet

Aw man that's so complicated 😔 I'm sorry. Big hugs

It’s ok. My mom is where I get all my weirdness from 😂🫂

She may be on to something. I can't pretend like I wouldn't consider that. Feed in some episodes of my pod and have him forever. It's tempting!

🤷‍♀️ in the age of AI, the world is your oyster 😂

Interesting. I love listening to my dads old messages. Id give a lot for another call with him.

I would give anything🫂 I get it

You are lol! I can understand, like all sides in this 🫂

Me too, but life is silly

It sure is! Good for a laugh, definitely. Be well! I am sure your dad is with you in more ways than one.

I have his exact personality and I am very proud of it 🥰

That's fucking awesome! You do have an awesome personality

You woulda liked him 🫂😂

Ah, so brutal, I’ve lived a version of the VM replay as well😢. Tangent: I think of all the folks today that have their entire lives documented digitally - I just picture the “mediums” of the future moving into this new level of grift in “bringing back” loved ones and all the scams that can take root in that shit show of emotional fuckery.

I can see pros and cons to it, but in a way, I think it can prolong the grief process 🤷‍♀️🫂

I forgive myself because I was young, but when my dad was sick, I had deleted a bunch of voicemails and text messages about 8 months before he died. He had recovered so well from previous surgeries I guess the thought of him dying was an impossibility. My sister and I had found some old voice recordings from, I think a Nintendo something or other. The quality is so bad it's hard to tell who tf it is, but aside from family videos that's all I have of his voice.

I hesitate to say anything further because I doubt you were asking for opinion, but I'm not sure it's wholly troublesome to engage with these tools in the short term. Grief is hard as you probably know, possibly one of the toughest long term emotions to cope with. I think only time will hopefully allow here to cope in a healthy way. I think I might have done the same at the time had the tools existed back then.

Also I think my voicemail box fills up at 20 messages, after that Verizon want's my money.

My mom and I have a very honest and bizarre relationship. I think it’s okay for her to do these things or whatever she feels she needs right now, it’s just kind of creepy and I told her that. We’ve both laughed about it 😂🫂

I've never used that but I bet it's creepy. How good is it though? Asking for a friend...

Highly dependent on amount/length of recordings as well as audio quality

just 🫂

But grief doesn’t follow rules.

Never thought it did