hellograndma.tech - talk to the deceased

Description and use

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week4-2026-10-26">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>Ever wish you could talk to a deceased loved one? Pretty sure there's a Black mirror episode on it. I tried to do something similar. Training on an actual dead person's conversations sounds like an ethical conundrum that I don't want to push my luck with in this post. So instead, I had to take a few thousand conversations of mine and fine tuned a few open-weight models on top of it.</p>

Problem

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week4-2026-10-26">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>Ever wish you could talk to a deceased loved one? Pretty sure there's a Black mirror episode on it. I tried to do something similar. Training on an actual dead person's conversations sounds like an ethical conundrum that I don't want to push my luck with in this post. So instead, I had to take a few thousand conversations of mine and fine tuned a few open-weight models on top of it.</p>

Outcome

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week4-2026-10-26">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>Ever wish you could talk to a deceased loved one? Pretty sure there's a Black mirror episode on it. I tried to do something similar. Training on an actual dead person's conversations sounds like an ethical conundrum that I don't want to push my luck with in this post. So instead, I had to take a few thousand conversations of mine and fine tuned a few open-weight models on top of it.</p>

Evidence

hellograndma.tech - talk to the deceased

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