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Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person’s account to keep posting and chatting - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
submitted 9 hours ago by Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1785983/meta-patents-ai-that-takes-over-a-dead-persons-account-to-keep-posting-and-chatting-dex

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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[-] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 44 points 8 hours ago

So Facebook has patented digital identity theft.

Awesome

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

I was happy when the dead were just voting. /s

[-] Widdershins@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

This was posted before and I'll say it again: if you want to shitpost from beyond the grave you do it your god damned self.

[-] 64bithero@lemmy.world 20 points 8 hours ago

Ok , that’s it. I think just leaving my account dormant isn’t enough. Deleting it is the only way. This makes me want to throw up

[-] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 hours ago

Just like in the famous book "Don't create the torment nexus" — Bravo!

[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 8 hours ago

Zombie data mining shitposters will one day be the ultimate fate of all Web 2.0 users.

Your ability to accumulate data doesn’t have to die with you. Your friends and relatives can be spammed with garbage from you even beyond the grave.

[-] prex@aussie.zone 6 points 7 hours ago

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

ENGAGEMENT

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 hours ago

Mikoshi was even housed in orbital data centers. How prescient is Pondsmith?

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 hours ago

Imagine being the patent agent reviewing that

[-] muxika@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

This is literally an audio drama.

[-] fistac0rpse@fedia.io 7 points 8 hours ago

think it was a Black Mirror episode too

[-] reallykindasorta@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 hours ago

Awhile back someone on here suggested maybe we’re trying to implement all of the fictional dystopias at the same time, so per the theory it might be because of Black Mirror or that podcast that we’re doing this.

[-] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I'm assuming this is something someone who plans to die someday might opt into or even be asked to pay for as a posthumous product/service? To feed their living ego, knowing that their AI mockingbird will keep their social media persona "alive" indefinitely?

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

And of course people's zombie accounts will all have zuck's political opinions.

[-] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 1 points 27 minutes ago

And lots of product placement/endorsements.

this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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