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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 13 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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[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If you still have e a Facebook account, you fully support this.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I fucking wish. If I delete insta, facebook and whatsapp, I cut 99% of friends, my family and my wife. I can probably delete FB and insta, but whatsapp is like impossible to get rid of. Everyone is on it.

Maybe in future EU moves to something else, then deleting would be possible. But as of now, it is not.

[–] python@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

I got my husband to migrate to Signal with me, but the only alternative to talking to my parents on Whatsapp is using some russian government-owned chat platform that they recently installed to talk to my grandparents (apparently Whatsapp no longer works in Russia). With those two options, I'm sticking to Whatsapp for now (on GrapheneOS, in a separate isolated profile that is completely off while I'm not using it and has no permission to do anything on my phone)