Meta Patented New AI That Let Accounts Posting Long After Owner's Death

[RAMROD 117,011]

The company was granted a patent in late December that outlines how a large language model can "simulate" a person's social media activity, such as responding to content posted by real people.

"The language model may be used for simulating the user when the user is absent from the social networking system, for example, when the user takes a long break or if the user is deceased," the patent says.

Andrew Bosworth, Meta's CTO, is listed as the primary author of the patent, which was first filed in 2023.

In the patent, Meta lays out why it thinks people might need this.

If you're no longer posting online — whether that's because you need a break from social media or … you … die — your followers' user experience will be affected. In short, they'll miss you.

"The impact on the users is much more severe and permanent if that user is deceased and can never return to the social networking platform," the document says.

To fill that void, Meta would essentially create a digital clone of your social media presence, training a model on "user-specific" data — including historical platform activity, such as comments, likes, or content — to understand how you would (or rather, did) behave.

That clone can then respond to other people's content by liking and commenting, or responding to DMs. For influencers or creators who make their livelihoods on Meta's platforms and need to take a break from social media, such a tool could be useful.

Meta's patent also references tech that would allow the LLM to simulate video or audio calls with users.

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted-patent-for-ai-llm-bot-dead-paused-accounts-2026-2

[jacs vs looser 5,121]

There's already been multiple black mirror episodes in regards to this. It never ends well.

Edited February 17 by jacs vs looser

[Junko Enoshima 4,569]

What the actual ****?

[Sneaky Oliver 22,973]

the future is scary, I’ve been thinking quite a lot about quitting social media for good and pretend it doesn’t exist anymore 

[Celloo Deng 56,315]

wtf, what is the point of this

[RAMROD 117,011]

6 minutes ago, Sneaky Oliver said:

the future is scary, I’ve been thinking quite a lot about quitting social media for good and pretend it doesn’t exist anymore 

Also, since modern problems need modern solutions, anyone who chooses to be on internet, really really need to put it in their will that they authorized someone they trust to ONLY delete all of their internet footprint, from social media accounts to all of their email addresses and more if they so choose. 

[Killa 18,817]

1 hour ago, RAMROD said:

Also, since modern problems need modern solutions, anyone who chooses to be on internet, really really need to put it in their will that they authorized someone they trust to ONLY delete all of their internet footprint, from social media accounts to all of their email addresses and more if they so choose. 

Very interesting take and so true. 

It's already a mess regarding family that can't even delete the account or dont know what to do with It. 

[StarstruckIllusion 53,564]

AI is getting so sad wow…

[Guest]

Imagine being able to post Tate McRae hate tweets even after you die 

[Lord Mayhem 3,424]

Creepy af...is this the same tech I heard about where people can talk to their dead loved ones based on summarizing their voice and text history and behavior?