Black mirror it is satire. I thought we were all on the same page with this.
As The independent report, Microsoft received a patent about some technologies that would allow the company to use the online footprint of people (or even fictional people), looking for things like images, voice data, social media posts [and] emails ”, and then build a chatbot from it.
There are also provisions for people to train a self-made snout.
Patented technology could create the muzzle of a “past or present entity.” The latter is problematic in itself, as there are ten bad reasons for each good when it comes to simulating a conversation with a person who, by virtue of being in life, could speak for themselves.
And the first one is just … look, this kind of thing was and will forever be incredibly fucked. Let the dead rest and spare the living torment.