Microsoft wants to create chatbots from the data of dead people

Black mirror is satire. I thought we were all on the same page.

As The independent report, Microsoft got a patent on a technology that would allow the company to use the online fingerprint of people (or even fictitious people), searching for things such as “images, voice data, social media posts [and] emails ”and then build a chatbot.

There are also provisions for people to train a robot made of themselves.

The patented technology would be able to create the bot from a “past or present entity”. The latter is problematic in itself, as there are ten bad reasons for every good when it comes to faking a conversation with a person who, due to being living, could speak for themselves.

And the first one is just … look, that kind of stuff has been and will forever be incredibly fucked up. Let the dead rest and spare the living torment.