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.
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.
90 Comments
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca · 147 pts · 192d
What the fuck
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 192d
Found the appropriate response.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 192d
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.
Novis@lemdro.id · 62 pts · 192d
That's fucking...... why would a patent office let that be a thing? FUCK
Novis@lemdro.id · 60 pts · 192d
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/
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works · 46 pts · 192d
That is so horribly unethical. Wtf is wrong with people.
Novis@lemdro.id · 27 pts · 192d
What? Come on! It made the judge "feel" something! Not like someone's died or something! /s
mech@feddit.org · 24 pts · 192d
WTF.
Novis@lemdro.id · 24 pts · 192d
Yeah, ain't it great that judges can be easily swayed by some bullshit? Good country, ethics really well here.
dellish@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 191d
How is that even admissible in court? It's worse than hearsay, it's madeupsay.
If your honour pleases, we have used AI to turn this child's crayon drawing into the defendant pleading guilty! I'll allow it.
For fucks sake.
turboSnail@piefed.europe.pub · 7 pts · 192d
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
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 192d
💸💸💸
darkevilmac@lemmy.zip · 58 pts · 192d
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 192d
*.avif is definitely a man made horror beyond my comprehension.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 31 pts · 192d
Here comes black mirror
NKBTN@feddit.uk · 18 pts · 192d
Hey guys! We've invented the Dead Person Simulator from that Black Mirror episode "Don't Invent Dead Person Simulators!"
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 192d
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.
astraeus@lemmy.ml · 29 pts · 192d
tal@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 192d
You can fake your own death and have a bot handle them.
toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 192d
Literally dead Internet theory
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 192d
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.
tino@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 192d
the future is when you can't buy RAM because your dead cousin is using it to spam your feed with their antivaxx ideas.
Reygle@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 192d
1dalm@lemmings.world · 22 pts · 192d
That... Is some fucked up shit.
Apocalypteroid@anarchist.nexus · 21 pts · 192d
Literally a black mirror episode.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 18 pts · 192d
Black mirror had a episode about this years ago. It's crazy no one patented this before.
trougnouf@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 192d
Would the black mirror episode not count as prior art and therefore invalidate the patent?
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 192d
Didn’t think I’d cross digital necromancy off my bingo card!
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 192d
They'd probably opt you into it by default without telling anyone...
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 15 pts · 192d
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?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 192d
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!
Flagstaff@programming.dev · 5 pts · 192d
The average person has less self-control than you, sadly.
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 192d
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 susceptible to ads than the average person.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 192d
Speaking solely for myself, I have accepted that I am as susceptible to marketing and propaganda as any other human, in an age where we are surrounded by it, none of it honest, none of it in my own best interest.
My response to this has been to cut off all possible routes of advertising: I literally do not watch or read anything that has ads, except possibly passing billboards and in-store ads. I don't play games that have ads. I don't listen to radio. I have adblocker on everything, or I simply leave. I can't stand ads, and I have cut them out of everything I can. I'd genuinely rather quit a service than submit to ads. (And yes, I do love just plain silence, whenever I can get it.)
So yeah, I'm immune: they can't influence me if they can't get access. That's the best kind of immunity there is.
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 192d
The reason i adblock the shit out of everything is not because i think i'm smarter than everyone, it's because i KNOW i'm susceptible to these things.
What you're describing is not immunity, but an avoidance strategy. Almost nobody is truly immune to ads, thats why we avoid exposure
Nobody is immune to HIV, so we avoid exposure
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 191d
Truth.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 2 pts · 192d
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?
cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 192d
Idiocracy was a great documentary of our future.
JerryMerweather@piefed.social · 4 pts · 192d
I dont think this will only apply to facebook. they also own whatsapp, instagram, and messenger.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social · 13 pts · 192d
Gotta keep those engagement numbers up.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 191d
There are like three episodes of Black Mirror about this.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 192d
This is dumb and fucked up, but I also look forward to the AI analog for @SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world constantly following up its own posts with apologies and banning itself.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 8 pts · 191d
If you ban yourself too often you’ll go blind which is why I never have.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 191d
"Dad, I'm over here"
veeesix@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 192d
Sounds like I’ll need to include account deletion as a part of my will.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 13 pts · 192d
It's cute how you think deleting your account will stop them.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 192d
Only way to delete your account properly is to never have made one or let ignorant people post YOUR image to FB
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 2 pts · 191d
Yeah ... good luck with that.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 191d
ikr, luckily every time I check I still have no ghost FB account nor can I find myself on google.
Took a course at college in '12 and one of the classes the assignment was to search for ourselves online, the prof clearly stated that "I couldn't find myself" was not an acceptable outcome. So when I went to deliver the news that I was going to get a zero because in 30+ pages of google I could not find any mentions of myself, I was the first and prolly only person to get full marks on that assignment
morriscox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 191d
I suspect that the professor was trying to make it so that people would put some effort in instead of just giving up and lying.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 191d
Probably, he was one of the better profs there
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 2 pts · 191d
You could be totally screwed in that assignment just by having a very common name.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 191d
Oh I did find many many with similar names, but nothing that indicated me. It was fun and I did expect him to give me zero on it, but when one does not have social media one has difficulty finding oneself online hehe
electrotabby@piefed.social · 4 pts · 192d
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...
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 191d
Let those bot accounts sign up for credit cards, see how fast they get shut down
artwork@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 192d
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 empty 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 and my descendants?
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...
reddig33@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 192d
Because of course they did. Not only did they think this was a good idea, they patented it! Ghouls.
Pratai@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 192d
If you still have e a Facebook account, you fully support this.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 192d
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 pts · 192d
Pratai@piefed.ca · 0 pts · 191d
There are phone calls and texting. There is zero excuse to remain in support of platforms that do this.
And if your friends remain on Facebook, they’re part of the problem too because apparently, any victims of the actions made by Zuckerberg can suck it so long as they can share and look at super cool memes.
BigTrout75@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 192d
Maybe they can get Epstein's account back in action
db2@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 192d
He's already playing games from Israel, apparently.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 192d
Imagine how many AI-written patents are being submitted everyday.
And it seems like the patent office just approves whatever comes in these days without even looking at it, they just hope the courts will sort out any conflicts.
Bye bye patent system. Have a cool idea you want to patent? Too bad. It was already patented word for word by some company using AI to churn out patents made up of every conceivable word combination in the English language.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 192d
Can't wait for Zuckerberg to start using it.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 191d
We are going to need a lot of new laws to stop nonsense like this. There is nothing positive to come from faking humans that are dead.
MurrayL@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 192d
I do not want to see Weekend at BernAI’s.
deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 192d
Why
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 191d
Get grieving relatives hooked on talking to bots, then sell them subscriptions to keep the bots running
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 192d
Fuck cuckerberg.
Antaeus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 191d
That is messed up on an entirely different level.
Crunch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 191d
What a great use of resources. Also, it seems like it borders on identity theft.
peetabix@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 190d
It is exactly that, identity theft.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 190d
Or fraud
clav64@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 190d
Can people at Meta stop emulating Black Mirror. Please.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 191d
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?!
SirHaxalot@nord.pub · 4 pts · 192d
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
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 192d
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 pts · 192d
Sorry guys, it's my fault for changing my name to Basilisk.
lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 192d
Ancestral AI. The ancients will be angry to be left voiceless, only modern ancestors admitted.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 191d
that's some torment nexus shit
Agent641@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 192d
Weekend at Zuckies
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d
Just when you thought it couldn't get shittier. Meta will prove you wrong.
gergolippai@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 192d
Don't they already do this with
BrezhnevTrump? Prior art!codapine@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 191d
Charlie Brooker warned us about this back when it was just fiction.
tal@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 192d
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 pts · 192d
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 pts · 191d
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.
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 192d
So they got a patent on a bot. Seems wide.
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 192d
Does /dev/null qualify as prior art?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 192d
or /dev/urandom?
Rothe@piefed.social · 1 pts · 192d
Literal ghouls the lot of them.