Most families say the same thing too late. They wanted to know their grandparents better. They wanted the stories while the person was still in the room. Then the person is gone, and what is left is three anecdotes and a box of unlabeled photos.
The point is not a prettier keepsake. It is to get the stories to know them better and for you and your children to know more about where you came from. If you want to remember someone, you have to get the stories out of their head while they can still tell them.
Peter Diamandis put the larger frame on LinkedIn. An LLM can generate 100 stories before dinner. The cost of producing a story has fallen to nearly zero. Can you get the stories of the prior generation. They also likely have first hand accounts of their parents, uncles and grand parents.
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