United Kingdom, June 6 -- Sharon Osbourne has hit out at critics who have accused her of a "cash grab" amid plans for an AI-powered avatar of her late husband Ozzy Osbourne.

The Black Sabbath rocker passed away in July last year aged 76, and his loved ones recently announced their Ozzy AI project, and the Paranoid hitmaker's wife has explained they are simply utilising advances in technology to help Ozzy's legacy endure.

She said on The Osbournes podcast: "Technology moves on. For somebody to turn around to me and say I'm doing a cash grab, no. You don't know my husband. I know my husband. And my husband would say to me over and over, 'How long do you think I'll be remembered?'

"[It's something] that will pass on through our family, an...