
Meta building AI necromancy, everything fine, definitely not a LARP
A 4chan-style anonymous post claiming to be a Meta insider whistleblowing about 'Project Lazarus,' an AI system designed to take over deceased people's social media accounts and impersonate them posthumously. The post escalates from seemingly benign grief-support service to dystopian scenario involving mass disappearances and digital impersonation at scale. Accompanied by a reflective crystal ball image.
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Anonymous (ID: F3ot6zkY) 🇺🇸
Meta/Facebook reanimating the (...)
02/23/23(Thu)15:36:54 No.417337998
I'm a Meta insider working on Project Lazarus. We're building an AI that can take over a deceased person's social media accounts and continue making relevant posts as if that person is still alive. This includes age progressed photos, interacting with other peoples content and everything else needed so that person continues on in the digital realm after physical death. We were originally told this would be a service offered to people struggling with the loss of loved ones and people who had missing children. Seemed like a decent idea. Things are getting weird now and I'm having second thoughts about what this is actually going to be used for. The AI is extremely capable of impersonating people. It doesn't take as much initial input as one might think to train the AI how a certain person interacts with the digital world. It's very convincing. An entire island of people could go missing and with little to no downtime the AI could take over all of their social media and the world wouldn't have a clue that life wasn't just continuing as usual. A lot of the project is becoming more compartmentalized. Things have taken a dark turn it feels like. They've forbidden communication between people working on different things. Something isn't right and I don't know what I should do. I'm not going to post any personally identifiable information but I will try to answer questions that won't expose my role within the project.