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.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get shittier. Meta will prove you wrong.
That is messed up on an entirely different level.
Can people at Meta stop emulating Black Mirror. Please.
There are like three episodes of Black Mirror about this.
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.
the future is when you can’t buy RAM because your dead cousin is using it to spam your feed with their antivaxx ideas.
What the fuck
Found the appropriate response.
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.
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?!
What a great use of resources. Also, it seems like it borders on identity theft.
It is exactly that, identity theft.
Or fraud
*.avif is definitely a man made horror beyond my comprehension.
Let those bot accounts sign up for credit cards, see how fast they get shut down
Didn’t think I’d cross digital necromancy off my bingo card!
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.
If you ban yourself too often you’ll go blind which is why I never have.
“Dad, I’m over here”
That’s fucking… why would a patent office let that be a thing? FUCK
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/
That is so horribly unethical. Wtf is wrong with people.
What? Come on! It made the judge “feel” something! Not like someone’s died or something! /s
Judge Todd Lang of Maricopa County Superior Court ultimately sentenced Pelkey’s killer Gabriel Paul Horcasitas to 10.5 years for manslaughter — although the state had asked for only 9.5 years — and 12.5 years in total, including an endangerment charge.
“I love that AI. Thank you for that,” Lang said, a recording of the hearing shows.
WTF.
Yeah, ain’t it great that judges can be easily swayed by some bullshit? Good country, ethics really well here.
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.
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
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