Meta patented an AI system that simulates your social media activity after you die, posting and chatting in your voice based on your historical posts. The speaker calls it dystopian and warns it could cause mental-health problems for people interacting with the dead person's AI.
I hear something pretty dystopian. Meta patent AI that takes over a dead person's account to keep posting and chatting. Meta has been granted a patent outlining an AI system capable of simulating a user's activity on social media, including continuing to post after their death. The patent describes how a large language model could replicate a person's online behavior using their past data. According to the patent, the model may be used for simulating the user when the user is absent from the social networking system. I don't know why anybody would want this. This sounds dystopian and weird and creepy and probably going to spin up all sorts of new mental health problems that we never expected it would spin up. But you know, social media and Meta have had a little bit of a tendency to do that in the past anyway, so I guess what do we expect.
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