Meta employee talks about AI that takes over dead people's social media
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That’s a good happy merchant abstract.
It’s one of the only good things to come out of stable diffusion algorithms. You can train it on the original Happy Merchant image and then tell it to create a scene–any scene–for you using that as the baseline. It’ll generate something entirely believable that, when you squint, causes the ADL to receive several million in new funds.
They spend a lot of money to counter what we do for free.
Fucking spoopy.
It wouldn't surprise me if it got partially absorbed into some glowly classified project, especially these days.
More ballot stuffing as a result.
This is the plan in fact. You will not converse with real people if they have their way about it.
Re: AI ate my baby.
Let's be clear. AI is programmed and ran by humans.
AI doesn't 'do' anything it isn't programmed to do by a person.
It's called Identity Theft. Where's the Blue Check Team on this? kek
Although on the surface this looks plausible, I think it's bogus. A key problem is, that without a good enough model of a person's mind, you can't emulate them for long. For instance, if you were to ask a simulator for a person who's been dead for a year what they think about the Ohio train wreck, there's no way the AI can really guess the person's reaction to it. It might make some vague mumblings but it can't capture the person's emotions about the incident.
There are other failings for this too, but no need for me to lecture.
If Facebook's FAIR AI division does have emulators, I warrant that they will be breakable and they can't truly emulate a dead person well enough to pass for long. Of course, there may be some AI developers who have fooled themselves into thinking they can do this well, but their mechanism is going to be shallow and limited.
There is plenty of overambitious bogosity in the AI field; don't trust any goshwow media coverages.
I think it’s real. I heard about this years ago. https://singularityhub.com/2018/10/29/the-how-why-and-whether-of-digital-avatars-that-live-on-after-we-die/
Oh, there ARE such avatars, but the problem is in the degree of execution of them. In the SF Bay Area a year ago some guy 'cloned' his now dead fiancee digitally and had it 'talk' to him via messaging. It was of course just a dead puppet. The digital avatars you mention are not based on strong underpinnings. They do not have a true Self inside, no soul, and no ability to be a true avatar. Just chatbot hacks. In a way it is like some actor plays a doctor on TV, but the actor has no ability whatsoever to heal the ill. He just wears a white lab coat and looks purposeful. A chatbot could talk about getting laid, but it never has had sex and cannot understand the experience.
Some people say this would never work because actual friends and family would post on the social media page that the person had died. This is obvious, and I'm sure Meta realizes that. That's why the purpose of this project cannot be as stated.
Again, they’ve talked about this publicly. They’re working on it already. It’s not some secret.
h/t: https://nitter.nl/iluminatibot/status/1629659105265590273/
Sounds like he just got through watching black mirror and wanted to stir up some shit.
There’s is an episode where social media feeds are used to reconstruct a robotic replica that is used to get over grief.
Exact same thing.
But who knows.
Or Interstellar where the lazarus mission had already been deployed
This is the first thing that came to my mind too. I have a hunch that black mirror may have just been trickling out hard-to-swallow truth pills though from the beginning.