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Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now (www.techradar.com)
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The question of whether we'll be uploading our consciousness to a computer is no longer if. It's probably when. That's because these digital consciousnesses – our essences – will likely be the product of an AI's interpretation of ourselves. The breadcrumbs we'll leave across digital files, images, videos, audio recordings, and, of course, all that social media will be an ample resource to reconstruct you.

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[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 72 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

If Cambridge Analytica wasn't enough of a reason to leave Facebook, then you will probably continue using Facebook today even after reading this.

Facebook should have been shutdown then. Actually, it should have been shutdown even before then since the Edward Snowden leaks.

The actions of users (or lack of user actions) from back then have brought us to the issues of today. The information has been out there for over a decade.

[–] NotAnonymousAtAll@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Cambridge Analytica was not enough of a reason to leave Facebook for me, because at that point I had already stopped actively using the site a long time ago and deleting my effectively inactive account seemed like a lot of effort for very little practical purpose.

This article (or just the headline to be honest) was finally enough to push me to actually go through with logging in one last time to finally get rid of it.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Why shut it down when you can just let it buy up all its competitors?

/s