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Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person’s account to keep posting and chatting - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 8 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 18 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Black mirror had a episode about this years ago. It's crazy no one patented this before.

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[–] trougnouf@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Would the black mirror episode not count as prior art and therefore invalidate the patent?

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