This is from Fareed Zacharias 22 Oct newsletter (which is free to join).
{ bots and “sock puppets” into the public consciousness. Fake social-media profiles, or stolen or dormant ones, could be usurped…
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they note that a Texas teenager who had been murdered in 2006 recently reappeared, eerily, on an app called Chatbot.AI. Farokhmanesh and Goode write: “Jennifer’s internet presence, [her father] Drew Crecente learned, had been used to create a ‘friendly AI character” that posed, falsely, as a ‘video game journalist.’ Any user of the app would be able to chat with ‘Jennifer,’ despite the fact that no one had given consent for this. …
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in the land of generative AI, where new pieces of media are churned out every day using derivatives of other media scraped haphazardly from the web.
I bolded that part about “scraping your essence” haphazardly.
I have a FB account that I’ve not accessed in 8 years or so. I did NOT deactivate it. I just stopped accessing it.
In the last couple years, I randomly get “you are now friends with +person>”. Is someone else using my account? Or is FB just trying to goad me to access my account?
ralph. That’s my avatar giving you a flower.