Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted-patent-for-ai-llm-bot-dead-paused-accounts-2026-2
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted-patent-for-ai-llm-bot-dead-paused-accounts-2026-2
61 Comments
Epzillon@lemmy.world · 102 pts · 187d
Holy shit, dystopia is real
Cyclist@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 187d
Black Mirror is real.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 187d
We're using Black Mirror, Idiocracy, and Handmaids Tale as a blueprint at this point.
Xaphanos@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 186d
Don't forget Neuromancer.
village604@adultswim.fan · 4 pts · 186d
And 1984, although people are willingly paying money to install telescreens.
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 92 pts · 187d
I would fucking hate getting “i miss you son” messages from my dead parents
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 55 pts · 187d
That’s abuse and harassment.
There’s no other way to look at it. It is not that relative, it’s fraud to claim it is, and it’s just disgusting to pull at the heart strings like this to make money.
errer@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 187d
“I miss you son…almost as much as I miss the energy of Five Hour Energy Dubai Chocolate Crunch!”
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 28 pts · 187d
"By the way, you would look great in these raybans™"
roofuskit@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 187d
Lol, this is because most of their Facebook users will be dead in the next 5 years.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 43 pts · 187d
How are these companies so Sociopathic that they don't immediately understand how awful an idea this is?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 187d
Unfortunately, the c-suites can’t hear you over the sound of their multimillion dollar annual bonus checks clearing
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 187d
At least we can hear their sobs when their sales slump, and their corporations nosedive.
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 186d
Idk a lot of people are very attached to their AI boyfriends and girlfriends so I think there's definitely a large market for this
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 186d
That's officially weird.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 186d
Because some soulless marketing drone will think it is a great idea.
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 186d
Plot twist: Meta patented it, but won't use it and thus it will never happen...
lol
Golden@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 33 pts · 187d
What an intellectually dishonest title. You can't keep posting after your death; your persona and all the relationships you spent a lifetime building become commodities for Meta to profit from
Xaphanos@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 187d
karashta@piefed.social · 23 pts · 187d
No one gave a shit about my shitty low effort shit while alive. Who the fuck wants a slop version of me to be disappointed in as well?
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 31 pts · 187d
Hey, none of that. Around here, all content is valuable, low-effort and shitty or not. As long as it was posted by a human; fuck AI.
poleslav@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 187d
This is the kinda positivity that I needed to start my day, thanks stranger lol
karashta@piefed.social · 8 pts · 187d
It's alright. I don't believe it was all that bad. But I never really tried or cared, so it was 100% low effort haha
321hendrik@discuss.tchncs.de · 17 pts · 187d
Another Black Mirror Story becoming reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
Murdoc@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 187d
And Caprica, and Limitless (the tv show, not the movie). Probably others. (Even a Babylon 5 episode was related, but more fantasy than sci-fi.)
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 187d
If you want to shitpost from beyond the grave do it yourself
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 186d
Casper the Unfriendly Ghost
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 186d
I'm actually gonna aim more for something out of The Shining.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 186d
Good news everyone! I write this from the better place.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 186d
Black mirror type shit
astraeus@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 187d
tomiant@piefed.social · 9 pts · 187d
Finally, so I can keep being banned forever.
thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 187d
So that meta can speak through your corpse after you die.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 187d
At least someone wants my body, I can't give it away.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 187d
Meta knows that you don't have to be dead for this to work, now you can respond to your friends on Facebook in a manner that most optimizes engagement... whether you want to or not.
They also won't let a little thing like you being dead stand in the way of their monetizing your data, it isn't like you can sue them for impersonation or anything.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 186d
I quit Facebook over a decade ago, but any gen AI thingie impersonating me will have to get drunk and post unfortunate things at 2 am and then delete them next day. Good luck to the poor dumb bastard.
Quexotic@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 186d
Even in death, we will not be free.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 186d
I see an upside, I'll be able to post "Fuck you Zuckerberg" for years after I'm gone.
Kissaki@feddit.org · 5 pts · 186d
What does the patent contain? Where is the non-obvious inventive step? Using an AI to impersonate someone doesn't strike me as novel, inventive, or surprising.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 187d
Meta announcement soon: "We made an update to our privacy statement. The most significant change is that we have now explicitly stated that you, the user, are in full control of your account and your data and you will have a lifelong, exlusive right to that data. We are doing this in the users best interest and comply with privacy regulations."
Conveniantly leaving out that they're effectively changing nothing except that you now loose all rights to your data and your account after you die.
Auster@thebrainbin.org · 4 pts · 187d
Headline implies Meta is being dystopian. Text suggests they're hoarding the patent so others can't use. While sure, Facebook the company deserves all distrust in the world, that's quite the disonance between the title and the rest of the article. Gotta love such manipulative news, specially as people usually read just the headline.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 187d
That's a no from me, dawg.
My post-life AI clone will have a single purpose: shitposting to Meta services about how shitty those same Meta services are.
I think our planned architectures may contain incompatibilities.
biotin7@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 186d
No no no no no no no, NOOOOOOO. Can we do something about Meta ?
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 187d
Ultimate vendor lock-in
Xaphanos@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 187d
Y'all are gonna love https://reflekta.ai/
/s
morriscox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 186d
If it can't do unique puns then it's not me.
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 187d
Holy fuck
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 187d
Bad enough to replace actual people with AI fakes, but maybe let's not have them puppeting the corpses of the dead, yeah?
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 186d
I could swear I saw some company doing this in a tech publication like 5-10 years ago
VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 187d
This is just a gimmick compared to an Alpha-level simulation, if it becomes possible.
https://revelationspace.fandom.com/wiki/Alpha-level_simulation
pir8t0x@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 186d
Hell nawh
hayvan@piefed.world · 2 pts · 187d
Um. Can it start shitposting on my behalf so I can quit completely?
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 187d
How much would it suck to wake up one day to find you've gone viral for words you never posted?
Guess it wouldn't matter if you only went viral with AI. Until the AI death threats start.
tomiant@piefed.social · 3 pts · 187d
How much would it suck to wake up and realize your shitmeme went viral and that that's the highlight of your life?
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 187d
"The highlight of my life is breaking 2k karma on a single 5 word shit comment."
Inspired by a "true" story.
morriscox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 186d
Over 12 years my highest voted comment on Reddit was 3 words and an ellipsis.
fierysparrow89@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 186d
I mean, who wouldn't want a mega corp to take over the personality of a loved one after they die? What could be better to help grieving than seeing an upbeat post of a deceised friend or loved one about the latest insurance benefits in your feed. This is some vile, soulless shit even for meta
CosmoNova@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 186d
Oh good. This will make it less accessible to others. Next step is a ban of the whole idea in the EU.
arcine@jlai.lu · 0 pts · 185d
sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 186d
Edit: Comment deleted because it belong to different post
abcdqfr@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 186d
wrong post my friend?
sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 186d
yes, commenting on the wrong post.
Thanks for pointing that out
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 186d
Good points tho.
Grimy@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 187d
I kind of want to get this for my family. Control the heating and stuff, idk