Meta was recently granted a patent for tech to keep your social media accounts running using AI if you take a break or die.
    • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
      47·
      9 days ago

      That’s abuse and harassment.

      There’s no other way to look at it. It is not that relative, it’s fraud to claim it is, and it’s just disgusting to pull at the heart strings like this to make money.

    • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34·
      9 days ago

      “I miss you son…almost as much as I miss the energy of Five Hour Energy Dubai Chocolate Crunch!”

  • Golden@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    25·
    9 days ago

    What an intellectually dishonest title. You can’t keep posting after your death; your persona and all the relationships you spent a lifetime building become commodities for Meta to profit from

  • karashta@piefed.socialEnglish
    20·
    9 days ago

    No one gave a shit about my shitty low effort shit while alive. Who the fuck wants a slop version of me to be disappointed in as well?

  • astraeus@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    9 days ago

    90% of their social media is already bots anyway would it really change much

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    9 days ago

    Meta knows that you don’t have to be dead for this to work, now you can respond to your friends on Facebook in a manner that most optimizes engagement… whether you want to or not.

    They also won’t let a little thing like you being dead stand in the way of their monetizing your data, it isn’t like you can sue them for impersonation or anything.

    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      I quit Facebook over a decade ago, but any gen AI thingie impersonating me will have to get drunk and post unfortunate things at 2 am and then delete them next day. Good luck to the poor dumb bastard.

  • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
    5·
    8 days ago

    Additionally, patentable materials must be novel, useful, and a non-obvious inventive step. - Wikipedia

    What does the patent contain? Where is the non-obvious inventive step? Using an AI to impersonate someone doesn’t strike me as novel, inventive, or surprising.

  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    9 days ago

    Meta announcement soon: “We made an update to our privacy statement. The most significant change is that we have now explicitly stated that you, the user, are in full control of your account and your data and you will have a lifelong, exlusive right to that data. We are doing this in the users best interest and comply with privacy regulations.”

    Conveniantly leaving out that they’re effectively changing nothing except that you now loose all rights to your data and your account after you die.

  • Xaphanos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    Y’all are gonna love https://reflekta.ai/

    Reflekta turns the stories, memories, and artifacts of the lives of you and your loved ones into private and interactive Reflektions that can be connected with anytime.

    /s