That has existed since the early 2010s. This patent should have been rejected on the grounds that it is insufficiently innovative.

(To say nothing of the idiocy of the idea. Patents aren't concerned whether your ideas are idiotic or not, just whether they're new enough that you deserve credit for them)

Good news everyone! I write this from the better place.

Holy shit, dystopia is real

I would fucking hate getting “i miss you son” messages from my dead parents

How are these companies so Sociopathic that they don't immediately understand how awful an idea this is?

Black mirror type shit

Additionally, patentable materials must be novel, useful, and a non-obvious inventive step. - Wikipedia

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.

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

Even in death, we will not be free.

I see an upside, I'll be able to post "Fuck you Zuckerberg" for years after I'm gone.

If you want to shitpost from beyond the grave do it yourself

Another Black Mirror Story becoming reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back

No no no no no no no, NOOOOOOO. Can we do something about Meta ?

I could swear I saw some company doing this in a tech publication like 5-10 years ago

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.

Finally, so I can keep being banned forever.

90% of their social media is already bots anyway would it really change much

So that meta can speak through your corpse after you die.

Hell nawh

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

Oh good. This will make it less accessible to others. Next step is a ban of the whole idea in the EU.

Ultimate vendor lock-in

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.

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.

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.

Y'all are gonna love https://reflekta.ai/

Reflekta turns the stories, memories, and artifacts of the lives of you and your loved ones into private and interactive Reflektions that can be connected with anytime.

/s