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Meta Patents AI System that Could Keep Your Social Media Alive After Death
Meta patented an AI that uses Facebook user data to simulate activity after death, including voice and video deepfakes, enabling ongoing digital interactions, the patent states.
- Last year, Meta was granted a patent for an AI system that can simulate a user's activity, Business Insider reported describing it as a large language model authored by Andrew Bosworth, Meta chief technology officer.
- The patent cites specific examples for use, noting two scenarios for usefulness: users who are deceased or taking long breaks, enabling immortal Facebook accounts to respond and 'digitally resurrect' activity.
- Using a user's own account data, the system trains a model on posts, comments, likes, chats, and voice messages, with natural language processing and deepfake voice cloning to replicate style and voice.
- Meta emphasised the patent does not imply deployment, with a spokesperson stating `We have no plans to move forward with this example,` while Dr Tomasz Hollanek flagged consent issues and ethical experts called griefbots `unsettling`.
- Remembrance is increasingly commercialised through subscription tiers and partnerships, with Dr Eva Nieto McAvoy noting griefbots tap cultural beliefs about life after death yet remain unsettling.
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Facebook would resurrect dead users with artificial intelligence.
Meta Patents AI That Keeps Social Media Users ‘Alive’ After Death
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Do you want an AI to keep your social media alive when you're dead? Facebook and Instagram's parent company has now been granted a patent for AI technology that simulates a deceased person and continues to post after death.
The death would no longer be the end of his presence on social networks.According to Business Insider, Meta obtained in December a patent for a language model that could simulate a person's digital activity, even after his death.The document states that a system trained with historical account data can respond to comments, send direct messages and interact with other publications as if you were still active.A trained digital clone with your hist…
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