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.
Literally a black mirror episode.
Weekend at Zuckies
I do not want to see Weekend at BernAI’s.
Don’t they already do this with
BrezhnevTrump? Prior art!So they got a patent on a bot. Seems wide.
Literal ghouls the lot of them.
*.avif is definitely a man made horror beyond my comprehension.
Sorry guys, it’s my fault for changing my name to Basilisk.
What the fuck
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.
Found the appropriate response.
Here comes black mirror
Hey guys! We’ve invented the Dead Person Simulator from that Black Mirror episode “Don’t Invent Dead Person Simulators!”
Gotta keep those engagement numbers up.
That’s fucking… why would a patent office let that be a thing? FUCK
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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
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/
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.
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
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.
Literally dead Internet theory
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)
