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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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[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 10 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Sounds like I’ll need to include account deletion as a part of my will.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's cute how you think deleting your account will stop them.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

Only way to delete your account properly is to never have made one or let ignorant people post YOUR image to FB

[–] electrotabby@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago

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...