There are like three episodes of Black Mirror about this.
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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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.
Charlie Brooker warned us about this back when it was just fiction.
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
What a great use of resources. Also, it seems like it borders on identity theft.
the future is when you can't buy RAM because your dead cousin is using it to spam your feed with their antivaxx ideas.
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"
Didn’t think I’d cross digital necromancy off my bingo card!
They'd probably opt you into it by default without telling anyone...
Why
Get grieving relatives hooked on talking to bots, then sell them subscriptions to keep the bots running
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?
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/
How is that even admissible in court? It's worse than hearsay, it's madeupsay.
If your honour pleases, we have used AI to turn this child's crayon drawing into the defendant pleading guilty! I'll allow it.
For fucks sake.
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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Literally a black mirror episode.
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.
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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Literally dead Internet theory
Thought experiment: near 100% of facebook users are such bots. Watch them interact with each other unfettered and see where it mutates.
Bonus interview with the one real facebook user left.
Can't wait for Zuckerberg to start using it.
American lives matter: They maintain premium ad rate DAUs for Meta. Some anti-business commies will consider this in bad taste, but in addition to Meta DAUs, supporters of Zionist supremacist rule over the US, should also be able to keep voting. Pro business zionists need this technology to keep the right people immortal, or Iran wins.
That... Is some fucked up shit.
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.
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