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Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person’s account to keep posting and chatting - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 14 hours ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] Novis@lemdro.id 44 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

That's fucking...... why would a patent office let that be a thing? FUCK

[–] Novis@lemdro.id 42 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

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/

[–] mech@feddit.org 19 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Novis@lemdro.id 17 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, ain't it great that judges can be easily swayed by some bullshit? Good country, ethics really well here.

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 33 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That is so horribly unethical. Wtf is wrong with people.

[–] Novis@lemdro.id 20 points 13 hours ago

What? Come on! It made the judge "feel" something! Not like someone's died or something! /s

[–] turboSnail@piefed.europe.pub 5 points 11 hours ago

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.