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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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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

American lives matter: They maintain premium ad rate DAUs for Meta. Some anti-business commies will consider this in bad taste, but in addition to Meta DAUs, supporters of Zionist supremacist rule over the US, should also be able to keep voting. Pro business zionists need this technology to keep the right people immortal, or Iran wins.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry guys, it's my fault for changing my name to Basilisk.

[–] SirHaxalot@nord.pub 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] clav64@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Can people at Meta stop emulating Black Mirror. Please.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ancestral AI. The ancients will be angry to be left voiceless, only modern ancestors admitted.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Ah yes, my machine spirit will continue posting against the Trump Regime long after I died while fighting the kakistocracy.

What? That's against the TOS?!

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

that's some torment nexus shit

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Weekend at Zuckies

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

It might have some applications. Upon reflection, I just realized that deaths are public information. Many people use social media under a psudonym. If someone dies and stops using social media at the same time, that's a pretty potent piece of information to deanonymize them (though they also might not care all that much, being dead). If Meta has a patent, nobody else is allowed to do that. I suppose it could give them a certain edge.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe it can repost racist MAGA slop, creep on the granddaughters of ex-girlfriends, and put private messages into the public feed, just like your dad!

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Nah the horrific part will it at first doing erratic but vaguely in character posts of people you actually liked which will then slowly mutate into shilling for whichever political party or company paid facebook the most.

[–] gergolippai@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Don't they already do this with ~~Brezhnev~~ Trump? Prior art!

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Literal ghouls the lot of them.

[–] codapine@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Charlie Brooker warned us about this back when it was just fiction.

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Just when you thought it couldn't get shittier. Meta will prove you wrong.

[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

So they got a patent on a bot. Seems wide.

[–] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does /dev/null qualify as prior art?

or /dev/urandom?

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