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RnDanger t1_it29ua5 wrote

This is clearly a lie. I'm assuming there's an AI that looks at public or personal feeds, which, gross, and also, sad.

If my family pays money to grant my lifetime of social media posts to an AI, I'm gonna be so dead!! Disappointed maybe, but definitely dead!

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HanaBothWays t1_it2a21m wrote

This is how it worked in that Black Mirror episode. I wonder if you can prevent it in your will!

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brettgt40 t1_it2b8qf wrote

I know on Facebook, if you've died, you can have it set up so your profile and everything is deleted. I set mine up that way, should be in the settings iirc

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HanaBothWays t1_it2d0f1 wrote

You can also change it to a memorial page. I remember when there was a big fuss over what would happen to people’s social media feeds (especially Facebook) after they died. My mom told me it’s my job to lock her Facebook page after she passes.

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dparks71 t1_it2hap5 wrote

I'm just going to create a script that deletes my feed and replaces it with a bunch of logical fallacies, links to malware and strings to delete tables in various database systems. Fuck their AI, they failed to agree to MY terms and conditions.

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Wills4291 t1_it3xoyf wrote

No. You should definitely log in to wish people a happy birthday and then be like "I don't know how that happened. It must be a message from beyond".

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HanaBothWays t1_it3y4fw wrote

Mom only uses the page to keep up with other old geezers, none of her kids who she would wish happy birthday to are on Facebook LOL

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Wills4291 t1_it3yb30 wrote

Oh that's a bummer. Maybe have her add them.

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Sember225 t1_it2gsl7 wrote

If you read the article the company had several hours worth of voice recordings from interviews.

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myredditlogintoo t1_it8b3sm wrote

It is absolutely not a lie. You can speak to dead people. Just don't expect a response.

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RnDanger t1_it8khmc wrote

I don't think we need tech for that but sure 🙃

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RnDanger t1_it2ek1k wrote

Tired: AI impersonating dead people

Wired: AI assisted social engineering hacks

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HanaBothWays t1_it2nss0 wrote

> Wired: AI assisted social engineering hacks

“Phishing as a service” has recently become a thing so if this does not already exist in some form I bet it will soon.

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CxOrillion t1_it2avr7 wrote

Wake the fuck up, Samurai

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rg4rg t1_it2cbez wrote

“Grandpa says to kill Adam Smasher again and again, but I still don’t know what he’s talking about. I just say I did and he’s happy and content for a while.”

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Thediciplematt t1_it290mj wrote

Now I can criticized and ridiculed for my life choices from the grave.

On the flipside, I get to do the same when I die.

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SuperSassyPantz t1_it2ct94 wrote

like i want my mom nagging me from the grave. hard pass.

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srone t1_it2e3g4 wrote

WHERE DID YOU HIDE THE MONEY GRAMPA???

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nrfmartin t1_it2g21v wrote

There was money IN the banana stand!

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assault_shakr t1_it3i6y6 wrote

How much clearer can I say "there's always money in the banana stand"

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AnApexBread t1_it2ey4w wrote

Wasn't there a Black Mirror episode about this exact topic?

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HanaBothWays t1_it2o68w wrote

Back off I made that comment first.

(LOL J/K it’s fine.)

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acidrain69 t1_it2hfr1 wrote

“Speak to an AI that tries to match words patterns”. FTFY

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LongWalk86 t1_it2iotf wrote

So headlines that are a complete and total lie are cool in this sub now? What a joke.

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regreening t1_it2dith wrote

Deepfake version of a relative creates deepfake relationship that helps you kid yourself that your fake ‘closure’ has healed your real weeping soul. Sounds about right for the instagram / tiktok generation. If your Dad was, say a bully or a violent drunk or a gaslighter is the AI going to either know this or fake apologise? A more realistic fake Dad would continue to deny and bully you into being gaslighted. Neither of these is going to be healthy. The ethical issues with this are off the chart.

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paradax2 t1_it2fgve wrote

Why bring generation into it?

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regreening t1_it2imrl wrote

I fear for anyone who spends too long in alternative reality or who erects an entirely false narrative about themselves for the purposes of social acceptance within social media. There is something deeply philosophical in the topic of is reality real anyway, but I’m not a philosopher or a physicist. Anyways the ethical side of things is to me the most worrying. Generation probably was the wrong word. And I’m tired.

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CatchingRays t1_it2k03m wrote

Probably because naturally one generation will be dying off at a greater rate and the other is growing up in tech. The better question might be; Why would you slight gen Z with the comment, "sounds about right for the instagram / tiktok generation."? Don't you realize you've turned into your grandparents who complained about your atari/nintendo/star wars generation?

IMHO though, I think both generations were kinda right. For decades our focus on what's cool and fun have distracted us from civic and personal financial matters that have allowed corporate America to thrive at the expense of our people. We 'respected our elders' and they screwed us. But I'm just a grumpy ol fuddy duddy.

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44moon t1_it2h542 wrote

>For some, this tech may even be alarming, or downright creepy.

I can't possibly be in the minority in thinking this is morbid and will further loosen our collective grip on reality...

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T_H_W t1_it2hrzt wrote

No, it hasn't.

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cricket9818 t1_it2ihup wrote

Hard pass. My sister is dead, and that’s the way it is. Anything else is fake

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Gouzi00 t1_it2il0u wrote

You can speak to death people.. they just won't answer:-)

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QueenOfQuok t1_it2iyv3 wrote

I can do that already. The conversation is pretty one-sided though.

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Salarian_American t1_it2j0r0 wrote

This doesn't seem like a constructive or healthy addition to the grieving process.

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just_looking_aroun t1_it2l4ms wrote

All fun and games until they put in the data of the racist uncle

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xCTRLxALTxDELx t1_it2l7hf wrote

Ouija board does that. Only problem is identity theft is even an issue in the afterlife so make sure to encrypt a pass phrase with loved ones to verify.

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TeaKingMac t1_it2ls1a wrote

Forget speaking to my dead relatives, will it let me talk to my exes without the embarrassment of actually talking to my exes?

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AE_WILLIAMS t1_it2m8dk wrote

NEW AI TECH CAN SMELL DEAD PEOPLE. BRUCE WILLIS UNIMPRESSED.

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UX-Edu t1_it2mp7w wrote

More importantly, do we want it?

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gill_flubberson t1_it2q9v7 wrote

“It scans their social media”

My AI: Boy do I love anime titty.

My mom: Son?

My AI: honkin badonkins

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CajuNerd t1_it2tp3x wrote

Everyone mentioning Black Mirror, but The Orville, and even further back Star Trek: TNG, did this, albeit with a holodeck. They were constantly bringing in dead people, using what was known about them from history, and in the case of Orville the social media and text messages of a long dead woman, and extrapolating their personality.

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Ya-Dikobraz t1_it37rig wrote

At least put the word "speak" in quotation marks, FFS.

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SpotifyIsBroken t1_it3xzsp wrote

No. It hasn't. Reported for disinformation.

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Mister_Weiss t1_it2mrly wrote

Another Black Mirror episode comes to life

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No_Antelope_6604 t1_it2pf76 wrote

I spoke to mine quite enough when they were alive, thank you.

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Bacon4EVER t1_it8g39u wrote

There's nothing misleading about this headline, or the article.

Also, if my dead Mom's voice-likeness doesn't drip with passive aggressiveness, it won't be believable.

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Slapnuts213 t1_it2jhng wrote

If I could speak to my deceased daughter hell yeah but I’m gonna go with DOUBT on this one Alex

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