Black mirror is satire. I thought we were all on the same page with this.
As The Independent report, Microsoft obtained a patent on some technology that enables the company to use online footprints of people (or even fictional people), looking for things like ‘images, voice data, social media [and] electronic messages ”, and then build a chatbot out of it.
There is also provision for people who can train a bot of their own.
The patented technology will be able to create the bot from a ‘past or present entity’. The latter is problematic in itself, as there are ten bad reasons for every good when it comes to simulating a conversation with a person who by virtue of alive, can do the talking for themselves.
And the former is just … look, this kind of stuff has been and will be incredibly fucked up forever. Let the dead rest and spare the living the torment.