That is messed up on an entirely different level.
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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What the fuck
Found the appropriate response.
Prime time to remind that Meta probably cranks out five hundred patents every day in case they ever have to engage in patent warfare against competitors. For the simple reason that the competitors are doing the same thing.
The patents cover every little thing under the sun that they can think of, but oddly I don't see each of those patents discussed online.
There are like three episodes of Black Mirror about this.
the future is when you can't buy RAM because your dead cousin is using it to spam your feed with their antivaxx ideas.
That's fucking...... why would a patent office let that be a thing? FUCK
This reminds me of that one judge that let prosecution use an AI approximation of a dead man against someone that killed the dead man to speak in the dead man's voice and I just wanted to throw the justice system INTO THE OCEAN cause wtf. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/tech/ai-courtroom-victim-impact-statement-arizona/
That is so horribly unethical. Wtf is wrong with people.
What? Come on! It made the judge "feel" something! Not like someone's died or something! /s
Judge Todd Lang of Maricopa County Superior Court ultimately sentenced Pelkey’s killer Gabriel Paul Horcasitas to 10.5 years for manslaughter — although the state had asked for only 9.5 years — and 12.5 years in total, including an endangerment charge.
“I love that AI. Thank you for that,” Lang said, a recording of the hearing shows.
WTF.
Yeah, ain't it great that judges can be easily swayed by some bullshit? Good country, ethics really well here.
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The job of the patent office is to determine whether that’s a valid patent application or not. As in, can you actually patent that thing, has someone else already patented it etc. As long as it’s technically valid, it gets approved. It’s up to the patent holder to test if its actually useful or not. If they choose to build the thing IRL, it’s up to the courts to determine if that breaks any laws. Every step along the way, the general public is there to judge the moral integrity of said invention, but usually that has no impact on the validity of the patent. Depending on jurisdiction, the patent office may need to follow some moral guielines, but the threshold of rejection is very high. My guess is, you won’t be able to patent a gas chamber for exterminating “illegal immigrants”, but patenting wild Meta BS is technically fine.
See also: this abomination
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Didn’t think I’d cross digital necromancy off my bingo card!
Just when you thought it couldn't get shittier. Meta will prove you wrong.
We are going to need a lot of new laws to stop nonsense like this. There is nothing positive to come from faking humans that are dead.
Here comes black mirror
Hey guys! We've invented the Dead Person Simulator from that Black Mirror episode "Don't Invent Dead Person Simulators!"
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Black mirror had a episode about this years ago. It's crazy no one patented this before.
Would the black mirror episode not count as prior art and therefore invalidate the patent?
They'd probably opt you into it by default without telling anyone...
Literally a black mirror episode.
not even death will stop your family members from sending you fake news articles
You can fake your own death and have a bot handle them.
Let those bot accounts sign up for credit cards, see how fast they get shut down
This is dumb and fucked up, but I also look forward to the AI analog for @SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world constantly following up its own posts with apologies and banning itself.
If you ban yourself too often you’ll go blind which is why I never have.
"Dad, I'm over here"
That... Is some fucked up shit.
What a great use of resources. Also, it seems like it borders on identity theft.
It is exactly that, identity theft.
Or fraud
Great. So now Facebook can become a literal ghost town.
I wonder how advertisers paying for ads on Facebook feel about paying to advertise to dead people?
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Gotta keep those engagement numbers up.
Why
Get grieving relatives hooked on talking to bots, then sell them subscriptions to keep the bots running
Imagine how many AI-written patents are being submitted everyday.
And it seems like the patent office just approves whatever comes in these days without even looking at it, they just hope the courts will sort out any conflicts.
Bye bye patent system. Have a cool idea you want to patent? Too bad. It was already patented word for word by some company using AI to churn out patents made up of every conceivable word combination in the English language.
Ah yes, my machine spirit will continue posting against the Trump Regime long after I died while fighting the kakistocracy.
What? That's against the TOS?!
that's some torment nexus shit
Sounds like I’ll need to include account deletion as a part of my will.
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Can't wait for Zuckerberg to start using it.
Because of course they did. Not only did they think this was a good idea, they patented it! Ghouls.
Oh no no no no no...
Please, God, Gods, or whoever, no...
I absolutely don't want my descendants to talk with some void-empty limited bloody-meatground utter nonsense... I don't want that freaking awful mess of terribly limited data to talk with my children or their children possibly framing and damaging their true memories and genuine confidence in me I had been developing the whole life... I don't want them to remember the algorithm or some imitation of me talking with a machine or some chat bot... no... never... please no... PLEASE NO...
No...
No...
Never...
No...
Some limited inhuman stupid chat/voice/avatar/anything bot? No...
Some bot that may erroneously represent me behind my back?
Never...
Some nonsense that may reshape memories of my ancestors?
No...
Never...
No...
If I am dead, I am dead. I want my descendants to just remember me, talk to me in their memories, real videos, audios, and photos, my effort, my ideas and love in artwork if ever they'll be interested... and once in a while visit the grave, at least 2-3 times per their life, if ever possible... and that's it...
If I am dead, I am dead as my ancestors are, who are not dead for me being alive but in my memories or something more magnificent/supernatural, and how I remember them, where they wanted to be the best they could, respected, glorified, and admired, without disturbing them in memories, soul, and the heart they gifted me, who I will always appreciate, respect, and love...
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