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The fate of social media profiles after death has long divided opinion: preserve them untouched, grant families access for memorials, or find another path. Meta once pursued the latter with a 2023 patent for an AI system trained on deceased users’ posts to simulate activity indefinitely, liking, commenting, and messaging long after they were gone.

Ginger Liu is the founder of Hollywood PR agency, Ginger Media & Entertainment, journalist and researcher on technology and entertainment, an MFA photographer and filmmaker, and host of the podcast Digital Afterlife: Hollywood & AI Tech