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.
There are like three episodes of Black Mirror about this.
Charlie Brooker warned us about this back when it was just fiction.
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?!
that’s some torment nexus shit
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!
They’d probably opt you into it by default without telling anyone…
Why
Get grieving relatives hooked on talking to bots, then sell them subscriptions to keep the bots running
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?
Imagine how many AI-written patents are being submitted everyday.
And it seems like the patent office just approves whatever comes in these days without even looking at it, they just hope the courts will sort out any conflicts.
Bye bye patent system. Have a cool idea you want to patent? Too bad. It was already patented word for word by some company using AI to churn out patents made up of every conceivable word combination in the English language.
