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Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now (www.techradar.com)
submitted 5 hours ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The question of whether we'll be uploading our consciousness to a computer is no longer if. It's probably when. That's because these digital consciousnesses – our essences – will likely be the product of an AI's interpretation of ourselves. The breadcrumbs we'll leave across digital files, images, videos, audio recordings, and, of course, all that social media will be an ample resource to reconstruct you.

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You can't actually delete your Facebook account, though. They just mark it as deleted in the database, but can absolutely still use the information.

[–] claimsou@lemmy.world 2 points 58 minutes ago (1 children)

Is it sure? I’ve done it 15 years ago but I remember clearly there was an option to delete everything. Could it be that it’s only for EU?

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 6 points 47 minutes ago

It's pretty rare to actually delete data from a database. It's almost always flagged in a way that the system is supposed to ignore.

But even if you've never had a Facebook account, they create a shadow profile by tracking you through the share on Facebook buttons on websites.