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"Think about it - for what other reason would facebook want to fake the fact that account users have vanished? Sure, you could say it's all economics and fake accounts might be possible to convert to cash, but if fake is all they want, they would not need to go through all the trouble of imitating real people, it would be easier to simply fake up new members from scratch. In fact, it would be a LOT easier to simply generate entirely fake people than to have to deal with millions of families saying "How is my deceased loved one still posting"? Unless that won't be an issue because entire circles of association are to be wiped out, like the communists in Russia did it -"

"After the bolshevik revolution, Russian communists managed the vanishing of people by killing entire families and all associates, so no one asked questions. This obviously took a lot of work because they had to figure out how to delete people by killing everyone without making it obvious while still maintaining a population that could carry forward. Nowadays, AI is going to assist in carrying out such a program with precision and it will be easy to do, because nowadays all people do is flick their phones, they, outside of work, don't actually know anyone face to face. And AI, which studied them constantly, can just keep right on posting and "maintaining relationships" without the disappearance ever being noticed. An AI can also manage family communications so meeting "face to face at christmas" can be delayed forever.

The people being deleted can simply be replaced by immigrants so neighborhoods don't empty out, in the end there will be only a few non-threatening bottom feeders left, musing at how all the homes around them filled up with foreigners. Relatives who happen to drop by will be left hanging, wondering what the hell happened, like the disappearance of "wally world" and if they raise enough of a stink, they can be eliminated also.
An ai that continues posting, creating perfect fakes of people that have been vanished is now probably the biggest threat we face, I believe it will happen and genocide will never be easier."

That only works for people who actually post shit and broadcast their life to every dickwad in the world, granted quite a few. Don't post on facetwat. If you post for political engagement, don't use your real name. Only be your real.you in real life.

Just like dead zombie voters, dead AI identity zombie name stealing could be used to generate fake consensus. We know that at some level AI is lazy or can't diversify screed, so matching screed could identify them like NPC bots.

The AI would only fool casual aquaintences because it would have to be trained by available content. If the content wasn't available, it would miss important things.

An old friend might message an AI: "Remember that time we went Chubby Chasing at the beach, and the Joke we made about the redhead one?" to the AI and the AI wouldn't remember it was Polly AteACaseOfCrackers or something.

Ceffer says

This new AI tracks the style and frequency of posts from users, so when they vanish it can auto generate new posts that make the person indistiguishably look like they are still alive, including aging, education progression, the whole 9 yards.

Kind of doubtful, I think their friends and family may notice that their dead husband/wife/mother/child is still active on Facebook.

People met casually, though, you would presume alive and wouldn't really be too hep that they might be dead, weird AI chatter or not. These are people who I wouldn't be familiar enough to scope out in details.

AI still tends to have a rather stilted style compared to real humans. Someday, they might be convincing if you aren't an intimate acquaintance.

I have people I knew from the past that I didn't know were dead until I came across obits. There are probably quite a few dead that I don't even know now. My junior high kept alumnae records of some, I found their web page last year, and I was surprised at how many of the kids died before they hit even 20, 30, or 40. I recognized some of them from memory, but really didn't otherwise know much about them.

There is tons of zombie info clogging up the internet. My old business is listed in many places as still operative. I wouldn't be surprised if the PTB wouldn't find a way to harvest zombie identities to nefarious ends.