Meta has been granted a patent outlining an AI system capable of simulating a user’s activity on social media to post after their death.
Some fucked up shit.
We are going to need a lot of new laws to stop nonsense like this. There is nothing positive to come from faking humans that are dead.
Charlie Brooker warned us about this back when it was just fiction.
There are like three episodes of Black Mirror about this.
that’s some torment nexus shit
Ah yes, my machine spirit will continue posting against the Trump Regime long after I died while fighting the kakistocracy.
What? That’s against the TOS?!
What a great use of resources. Also, it seems like it borders on identity theft.
the future is when you can’t buy RAM because your dead cousin is using it to spam your feed with their antivaxx ideas.
Let those bot accounts sign up for credit cards, see how fast they get shut down
This is dumb and fucked up, but I also look forward to the AI analog for @SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world constantly following up its own posts with apologies and banning itself.
If you ban yourself too often you’ll go blind which is why I never have.
“Dad, I’m over here”
Didn’t think I’d cross digital necromancy off my bingo card!
Why
Get grieving relatives hooked on talking to bots, then sell them subscriptions to keep the bots running
They’d probably opt you into it by default without telling anyone…
Black mirror had a episode about this years ago. It’s crazy no one patented this before.
Would the black mirror episode not count as prior art and therefore invalidate the patent?
What the fuck
Found the appropriate response.
Prime time to remind that Meta probably cranks out five hundred patents every day in case they ever have to engage in patent warfare against competitors. For the simple reason that the competitors are doing the same thing.
The patents cover every little thing under the sun that they can think of, but oddly I don’t see each of those patents discussed online.
