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Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now (www.techradar.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The question of whether we'll be uploading our consciousness to a computer is no longer if. It's probably when. That's because these digital consciousnesses – our essences – will likely be the product of an AI's interpretation of ourselves. The breadcrumbs we'll leave across digital files, images, videos, audio recordings, and, of course, all that social media will be an ample resource to reconstruct you.

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[–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Still can't figure out why people started using that crap in the first place, didn't this seem really obvious?

In any case, that also means Instagram too, you know that right?

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Most of the people I know created their account like around 2012 as teens. It wasn't obvious back then.

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  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It was obvious back then.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Sure. We all knew that super computers from the future get trained to imitate our shitty meaningless teenager posts after our death.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    That isn't the only issue, it's just the latest. Handing over all your personal data, to a system that would obviously combine, extract, manipulate and sell your information seemed like a good idea? How did you think they were going to make money? The kindness of a corporation?

    It was obvious then! Downvote me, argue with me, but any person who thought about it for five minutes should have been able to figure this out.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    That's the point: Nobody thought about it more than five minutes. We were kids, teenagers. We had other stuff in our minds:D As an adult, living in times where stuff like this is reported on a daily basis, well yea now it's obvious.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Even as a kid I got this. How you didn't is beyond me. First rule: never real information on the internet.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    That's good for you! I bet you were the weird kid back then.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It was 2006 when face book launched to everyone. People had been online for years. Everyone knew the consequences of online handles, stalkers, privacy, personal identifiable info.

    Corporations and online businesses were not to be trusted, that also was obvious.

    But people, by and large, are morons so here we are.

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  • [+] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Honestly most of my posts about these subjects are exactly that: education, information and exposing things for what they are. My history says as much, particularly on companies and advertising.

    Maybe I should have phrased it different: everything was there that should have informed them. This was so damn obvious and people had been alerted for years. It wasn't some mystery.

    I am saying things to this audience different then I would to others of course.

    Their is no supiorority, no higher intelligence, no autism, just common sense. These things were all around us then: don't give out personal information, remain annonymous on the internet, corporations are evil. Pretty much the basics.

    Are people morons? Lately I really so feel that way. You can show facts, compassion, try to help, and they still do the dumbest things.

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