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Dead Internet Theory: AI can build responsive personas from a deceased person's digital remains, but generated replies are new outputs assembled from evidence of a life, not continued testimony from the person who died.
Dead Internet Theory: A purchased mailing list transfers addresses, not necessarily permission: the buyer may know almost nothing about how each contact was collected, what was disclosed, or whether the recipient ever expected to hear from the buyer.
Dead Internet Theory: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC can help establish that a message is authorized by a sending domain, but authentication does not prove that the recipient asked for the message or still wants it.