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.
You can’t actually delete your Facebook account, though. They just mark it as deleted in the database, but can absolutely still use the information.
You all still have Facebook accounts???
Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus Rift?
It’s really hard to get people to suffer mild inconvenience when they don’t emotionally connect with the benefits.
Most of facebook’s evils are remote and impersonal. Seeing your cousin’s baby photos is real and at hand.
Why, would a closed account be a problem for them? Imagine one day receiving a short video from your deceised mom saying hi and inviting you back to fb for a chat.
But only if you reactivate your account
If Cambridge Analytica wasn’t enough of a reason to leave Facebook, then you will probably continue using Facebook today even after reading this.
Facebook should have been shutdown then. Actually, it should have been shutdown even before then since the Edward Snowden leaks.
The actions of users (or lack of user actions) from back then have brought us to the issues of today. The information has been out there for over a decade.
Why shut it down when you can just let it buy up all its competitors?
/s
The best time to delete your accounts was a decade ago. The second best time is today.
Never had a Facebook account, never will, and so i will never know the joy of deleting it.
Been through it twice. You’re not really missing any joy, just the annoyance of really hoping you don’t accidentally “sign in using Facebook” on a random website and have to start the process over.
Way ahead of ya, brother.
No it won’t. It will be the veneer. Like preserving the makeup and hair product but not the person it’s painted on.
A lot of Facebook users are 90% veneer though.
I already assume everything I wrote on the Internet is eternal. Of course, data is free and people will use it for stupid stuff like this. This doesn’t surprise me.
This is exactly why I’ve been recording personal logs and saving archives of all of my digital interactions for over a decade already. Going to make one of these for myself at some point using local models.
They laughed, called me mad. Well who’s mad now?
I doubt it will come close to that, it would probably be a very bad copy. I doubt even the most facebook addicted person would put out enough information for the AI to make a good copy of them as a person. Their voice and face, yes, but I imagine talking to them would be just as infuriating as talking to an AI model of today.
I saw a documentary about this. I think they called it Caprica.
