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.
They’d probably opt you into it by default without telling anyone…
Because of course they did. Not only did they think this was a good idea, they patented it! Ghouls.
damn now not even death will stop your family members from sending you fake news articles
You can fake your own death and have a bot handle them.
Literally dead Internet theory
Thought experiment: near 100% of facebook users are such bots. Watch them interact with each other unfettered and see where it mutates.
Bonus interview with the one real facebook user left.
Fuck cuckerberg.
That… Is some fucked up shit.
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.
That’s fucking… why would a patent office let that be a thing? FUCK
The job of the patent office is to determine whether that’s a valid patent application or not. As in, can you actually patent that thing, has someone else already patented it etc. As long as it’s technically valid, it gets approved. It’s up to the patent holder to test if its actually useful or not. If they choose to build the thing IRL, it’s up to the courts to determine if that breaks any laws. Every step along the way, the general public is there to judge the moral integrity of said invention, but usually that has no impact on the validity of the patent. Depending on jurisdiction, the patent office may need to follow some moral guielines, but the threshold of rejection is very high. My guess is, you won’t be able to patent a gas chamber for exterminating “illegal immigrants”, but patenting wild Meta BS is technically fine.
See also: this abomination
This reminds me of that one judge that let prosecution use an AI approximation of a dead man against someone that killed the dead man to speak in the dead man’s voice and I just wanted to throw the justice system INTO THE OCEAN cause wtf. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/tech/ai-courtroom-victim-impact-statement-arizona/
That is so horribly unethical. Wtf is wrong with people.
What? Come on! It made the judge “feel” something! Not like someone’s died or something! /s
How is that even admissible in court? It’s worse than hearsay, it’s madeupsay.
If your honour pleases, we have used AI to turn this child’s crayon drawing into the defendant pleading guilty! I’ll allow it.
For fucks sake.
Judge Todd Lang of Maricopa County Superior Court ultimately sentenced Pelkey’s killer Gabriel Paul Horcasitas to 10.5 years for manslaughter — although the state had asked for only 9.5 years — and 12.5 years in total, including an endangerment charge.
“I love that AI. Thank you for that,” Lang said, a recording of the hearing shows.
WTF.
Yeah, ain’t it great that judges can be easily swayed by some bullshit? Good country, ethics really well here.
Can people at Meta stop emulating Black Mirror. Please.
Sounds like I’ll need to include account deletion as a part of my will.
I deleted (not deactivated) my account back in 2014. In 2022 I tried logging in and found my profile exactly as I left it, nothing gone…
It’s cute how you think deleting your account will stop them.
Only way to delete your account properly is to never have made one or let ignorant people post YOUR image to FB
or let ignorant people post YOUR image to FB
Yeah … good luck with that.
ikr, luckily every time I check I still have no ghost FB account nor can I find myself on google.
Took a course at college in '12 and one of the classes the assignment was to search for ourselves online, the prof clearly stated that “I couldn’t find myself” was not an acceptable outcome. So when I went to deliver the news that I was going to get a zero because in 30+ pages of google I could not find any mentions of myself, I was the first and prolly only person to get full marks on that assignment
I suspect that the professor was trying to make it so that people would put some effort in instead of just giving up and lying.
You could be totally screwed in that assignment just by having a very common name.
Oh I did find many many with similar names, but nothing that indicated me. It was fun and I did expect him to give me zero on it, but when one does not have social media one has difficulty finding oneself online hehe
That is messed up on an entirely different level.
Oh no no no no no…
Please, God, no…I absolutely don’t want my descendants to talk with some void-empty limited nonsense… I don’t want that freaking awful nonsense to talk with my children or their children possibly framing and damaging their true memories and genuine confidence in me I had been developing the whole life… I don’t want them to remember the algorithm or some imitation of me talking with a machine or some chat bot… no… never… please no… PLEASE NO…
No…
No…
Never…
No…If I am dead, I am dead. I want my descendants to just remember me, talk to me in their memories, and once in a while visit the grave, at least 2-3 times per their life, if possible… and that’s it…
Some limited inhuman stupid chat/voice/avatar/anything bot? No…
Never…
No…If I am dead, I am dead as my ancestors are, who are not dead for me being alive but in my memories or something more magnificent/supernatural, and how I remember them, where they wanted to be the best they could, respected, glorified, and admired, without disturbing them in memories, soul, and the heart they gifted me, who I will always appreciate, respect, and love…
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?!
Maybe they can get Epstein’s account back in action
He’s already playing games from Israel, apparently.
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.
