Meta Patents AI That Could Keep Users Posting After Death

Meta has been granted a patent for artificial intelligence that could allow a person’s social media account to keep interacting after they die. The system would use a large language model trained on a user’s historical activity to simulate how that person behaves online, potentially responding to posts and messages as if they were still present.Filed in 2023 and approved in late December, the patent lists Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth as its primary author. It describ