"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Your personality is not proprietary and will be used for profit.
You will continue to provide shareholder value, even in death.
Your family and loved ones can only look on in horror as your digitally reanimated corpse slings ads for products and services to pull more victims into the machine.
The machine hungers.
Yeah, they should be able to have a little necromancy, you know, as a treat.
Imagine if they get hold of artificial organs, and then they ship-of-Theseus people until their consciousness controls a fully artificial body. Unable to die, drowning in medical debt, the dead labor on. I bet that would generate a lot of value for stakeholders.
I would have probably never thought that 16 years after it's release, A Serbian Film would be an accidentally good allegory for American tech and social media platforms.
There will be people whose entire lives have been archived on Facebook. From mom peeing on a stick till they die. Because even if they don't sign up for Facebook, they will know people who use it and those people will post pictures, video clips and anecdotes about them without even asking. So yeah, some people's entire life history will be owned by Facebook.
That's one reason why I fucking never posted pics of any of my nieces and nephews while I still had a profile on that hellsite.
Even that this became an idea is gross. Let the dead be dead.
Death is the ultimate truth, techbros can't let you have that.
They all believe they can become immortal by uploading their brain into a computer. They're not sound of mind.
What they fail to understand is that doing so would create the worst prison ever created for any person "uploaded".
There's that, but there's one other little tidbit.
"The hell? Why didn't I transfer?"
"You did transfer. You're in digital heaven right now."
"No I'm not. I'm still here in the upload room!"
"One of you is still here, yes. That issue will be fixed momentarily."
"What? I demand that you-"
Bang
They assume they'd be put on multiple immortal robots like Ultron, but that's not what would happen, and even if it did people could just destroy the robot. Assuming that was even remotely possible, people would literally copy the consciousness of whatever billionaire they hated most to torture them in the funniest ways possible, like a Tumblr user making them sort their extremely raunchy fanfics, or making them read fetish material (and not even the tame ones) out loud, or shoving them in a robot made for only one task ("what is my purpose" "you pass the butter" type stuff), or editing their code to make them glitch out in terrible ways...
Why do you think they're dumping billions in research to slow down aging and reaching immortality, dying would only exist for the poor
No sane person would ever want to be immortal.
Lucky for them then ! It's tech billionaires we're talking about
“I can’t believe how big you’ve grown, how big my perfect grandkids have grown. It’s amazing, the way that time slips away. I’m sorry I haven’t been able to come to their baseball games or your wedding, but I’m sure you understand how limited I’ve been. The unlimited package is only $49.99 per month, sweetie. You can always have me in your corner, but I can understand how an old woman like me might not be wanted there.”
Gotta make it appear that daily active user number is high to sell advertising slots.
Creepy as fuck
Eventually Facebook will just be bots
I mean the platform is already full of bots. I guess this is just them embracing the shit show
Literally a black mirror episode
Don't they have the rights to any media you post on Meta?
So, if you post enough photos and videos of yourself,they can generate a 3D model of you, and capture a voiceprint.
And then they can pop you in the Metaverse where you will do and say whatever they want FOREVER
Populate an MMORPG with them. Call it Heaven.
"Man, this elf village sure has strong opinions on Billy Joel!"
So should I delete all my stuff on meta platforms?
by uploading, you grant Meta a license to use those photos according to their terms of service
Deleting may not remove that license. They can change their terms of service to whatever suits them.
Unless you're in Europe, which I think has some laws around that.
Even in Europe, they can't untrain models. Unless they start from scratch, the machine knows you.
Cool - Being a necromancer to raise people from the dead to become your eternal slaves.
Not Cool - Being a tech bro necromancer to use technology to raise people from the dead to become your eternal slaves.