Submitted 2 weeks ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person’s account to keep posting and chatting - Dexerto
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.
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.
That is so horribly unethical. Wtf is wrong with people.
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.
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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*.avif is definitely a man made horror beyond my comprehension.
Here comes black mirror
Hey guys! We’ve invented the Dead Person Simulator from that Black Mirror episode “Don’t Invent Dead Person Simulators!”
Who’d’a thought that series would not only be a scathing critique of at that time existing technology, but a precise depiction of what’s going to happen only a decade later.
damn now not even death will stop your family members from sending you fake news articles
You can fake your own death and have a bot handle them.
the future is when you can’t buy RAM because your dead cousin is using it to spam your feed with their antivaxx ideas.
Literally dead Internet theory
Thought experiment: near 100% of Facebook users are such bots. Watch them interact with each other unfettered and see where it leads. Facebook, the once popular social media application, taken over by AI, conversations mutating into …
That… Is some fucked up shit.
Literally a black mirror episode.
Black mirror had a episode about this years ago. It’s crazy no one patented this before.
Would the black mirror episode not count as prior art and therefore invalidate the patent?
Didn’t think I’d cross digital necromancy off my bingo card!
They’d probably opt you into it by default without telling anyone…
There are like three episodes of Black Mirror about this.
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?
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!
Doesn’t matter if you show 100 ads.
The average person has less self-control than you, sadly.
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!”
Idiocracy was a great documentary of our future.
I dont this will only apply to facebook. the also own whatsapp, instagram, and messenger.
Gotta keep those engagement numbers up.
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”
Let those not accounts sign up for credit cards, see how fast they get shut down
Sounds like I’ll need to include account deletion as a part of my will.
It’s cute how you think deleting your account will stop them.
Only way to delete your account properly is to never have made one or let ignorant people post YOUR image to FB
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…
Oh no no no no no…
Please, God, no…
I absolutely don’t want my descendants to talk with some void-empty limited nonsense… I don’t want that freaking awful nonsense 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…
If I am dead, I want to be dead. I want for my descendants to just remember me, talk to me in their memories, and once in a while visit the grave, at least 2-3 times per their life, if possible… and that’s it…
Some limited inhuman stupid chat/voice/avatar/anything bot? No…
Never…
No…
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…
If you still have e a Facebook account, you fully support this.
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.
I got my husband to migrate to Signal with me, but the only alternative to talking to my parents on Whatsapp is using some russian government-owned chat platform that they recently installed to talk to my grandparents (apparently Whatsapp no longer works in Russia). With those two options, I’m sticking to Whatsapp for now (on GrapheneOS, in a separate isolated profile that is completely off while I’m not using it and has no permission to do anything on my phone)
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.
Can’t wait for Zuckerberg to start using it.
Maybe they can get Epstein’s account back in action
He’s already playing games from Israel, apparently.
Because of course they did. Not only did they think this was a good idea, they patented it! Ghouls.
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.
Why
Get grieving relatives hooked on talking to bots, then sell them subscriptions to keep the bots running
Imagine how many AI-written patents are being submitted everyday.
Ant they just approve whatever comes in it seems and hope the courts will sort out any conflicts.
Bye bye patent system.
I do not want to see Weekend at BernAI’s.
That is messed up on an entirely different level.
What a great use of resources. Also, it seems like it borders on identity theft.
It is exactly that, identity theft.
Or fraud
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
What the fuck
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Found the appropriate response.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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, but oddly I don’t see each of those patents discussed online.