Black mirror it is a satire. I thought we were all on the same page with that.
How The Independent report, Microsoft has obtained a patent about some technologies that would allow the company to use people’s online footprint (or even fictional people), looking for things like images, voice data, social media posts [and] emails ”, and then create a chatbot.
There are also provisions for people to form a bot made of themselves.
Patented technology would be able to create the bot from a “past or present entity.” The latter is in itself problematic, as there are ten bad reasons for all the good ones when it comes to simulating a conversation with a person who, by virtue of being alive, they might be talking for themselves.
And the first is … look, that kind of thing has been and will be forever incredibly fucked up. Let the dead rest and save the torment of the living.