They're probably not going to use it...
... but if they do it's going to be a hell of a good starting point in motivating people to leave Facebook
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Can't wait for Zuckerberg to start using it.
Black mirror had a episode about this years ago. It's crazy no one patented this before.
Literally a black mirror episode.
I do not want to see Weekend at BernAI’s.
*.avif is definitely a man made horror beyond my comprehension.
Weekend at Zuckies
What the fuck
Prime time to remind that Meta probably cranks out five hundred patents every day in case they ever have to engage in patent warfare against competitors. For the simple reason that the competitors are doing the same thing.
The patents cover every little thing under the sun that they can think of, but oddly I don't see each of those patents discussed online.
Found the appropriate response.
Don't they already do this with ~~Brezhnev~~ Trump? Prior art!
That's fucking...... why would a patent office let that be a thing? FUCK
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/
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.
Yeah, ain't it great that judges can be easily swayed by some bullshit? Good country, ethics really well here.
That is so horribly unethical. Wtf is wrong with people.
What? Come on! It made the judge "feel" something! Not like someone's died or something! /s
💸💸💸
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.
See also: this abomination
So they got a patent on a bot. Seems wide.
Here comes black mirror
Who'd'a thought that series would not only be a scathing critique of at that time existing technology, but also a precise depiction of what's going to happen a decade later.
Hey guys! We've invented the Dead Person Simulator from that Black Mirror episode "Don't Invent Dead Person Simulators!"
Sorry guys, it's my fault for changing my name to Basilisk.
Literal ghouls the lot of them.
Gotta keep those engagement numbers up.
Literally dead Internet theory
Thought experiment: near 100% of facebook users are such bots. Watch them interact with each other unfettered and see where it mutates.
Bonus interview with the one real facebook user left.
not even death will stop your family members from sending you fake news articles
You can fake your own death and have a bot handle them.
That... Is some fucked up shit.
Great. So now Facebook can become a literal ghost town.
I wonder how advertisers paying for ads on Facebook feel about paying to advertise to dead people?
I don't care how advertisers feel. I've been telling them for decades that their ads have zero effect on me. That it just pisses me off.
When I go into a grocery store, I have a list. If it's not on that list, I'm not buying it. The list was prepared weeks ago, and added as I run out of things. Doesn't matter if you show 100 ads. I'm not paying attention. Even though you paid money to show the ad, I still didn't see it. What difference does it make if I'm alive? Either way I didn't see the....uh.....what were you selling again? It was a commercial for Jesus? See, this just shows how little I pay atttention to ads. I saw the superbowl, and I'm fairly sure one of the commercials was for Jesus. I'm unclear how one would buy Jesus, but that was the ad.
Tell ya what advertiser industry. I'm going to do your job for you. I'm going to make sure every single person pays attention to every ad you ever put out. Are you ready for this? Here we go.
The screen fades in from black to a closeup of some tittys. They're bouncing around, and women are moaning. Then they start moaning "OOOOOHHHH, YEEEAAAAHHHH BUY OUR PRODUCT, BUY THE PRODUCT! OOOOHHHHH!"
Remember, tittys are still bouncing. You put the product in the center of the screen.
You just made a billion dollars!
Doesn’t matter if you show 100 ads.
The average person has less self-control than you, sadly.
Being influenced by ads is not some moral failing.
I really doubt people who think they have some special willpower to resist advertising. Advertising isnt simply "go buy this particular thing". Brand recognition alone is very powerful.
The person you replied to thinks their shopping list is somehow immune to advertising, i highly doubt it. The lack of self awareness makes me think they are MORE succeptible to ads than the average person.
The person you replied to thinks their shopping list is somehow immune to advertising
Yep. They only buy things on their list, okay.
So which brand of that thing are you going to buy? The one you recognize most and are most familiar with, maybe?
The screen fades in from black to a closeup of some tittys. They’re bouncing around, and women are moaning. Then they start moaning “OOOOOHHHH, YEEEAAAAHHHH BUY OUR PRODUCT, BUY THE PRODUCT! OOOOHHHHH!”
Idiocracy was a great documentary of our future.
I dont this will only apply to facebook. the also own whatsapp, instagram, and messenger.
If you still have e a Facebook account, you fully support this.
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.
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)
Because of course they did. Not only did they think this was a good idea, they patented it! Ghouls.
Sounds like I’ll need to include account deletion as a part of my will.
It's cute how you think deleting your account will stop them.
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...
Oh no no no no no...
Please, God, Gods, or whoever, no...
I absolutely don't want my descendants to talk with some void-empty limited bloody-meatground utter nonsense... I don't want that freaking awful mess of terribly limited data to talk with my children or their children possibly framing and damaging their true memories and genuine confidence in me I had been developing the whole life... I don't want them to remember the algorithm or some imitation of me talking with a machine or some chat bot... no... never... please no... PLEASE NO...
No...
No...
Never...
No...
Some limited inhuman stupid chat/voice/avatar/anything bot? No...
Some bot that may erroneously represent me behind my back?
Never...
Some nonsense that may reshape memories of my ancestors?
No...
Never...
No...
If I am dead, I am dead. I want my descendants to just remember me, talk to me in their memories, real videos, audios, and photos, my effort, my ideas and love in artwork if ever they'll be interested... and once in a while visit the grave, at least 2-3 times per their life, if ever possible... and that's it...
If I am dead, I am dead as my ancestors are, who are not dead for me being alive but in my memories or something more magnificent/supernatural, and how I remember them, where they wanted to be the best they could, respected, glorified, and admired, without disturbing them in memories, soul, and the heart they gifted me, who I will always appreciate, respect, and love...
Maybe they can get Epstein's account back in action
He's already playing games from Israel, apparently.
Fuck cuckerberg.
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