Meta patents AI that could keep you posting from beyond the grave

Meta has been granted US patent 12513102B2 on 30 December 2025, described as “Simulation of a user of a social networking system using a language model,” which trains an AI on a user’s posts, comments, chats, voice messages and likes, then deploys a bot to respond to newsfeeds, DMs and even simulated audio or video calls. Filed in November 2023 by Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, the filing raises questions about how such technology could be used beyond ordinary posting, potentially even after a user’s death.

A Meta spokesperson according to Business Insider said the company has no plans to act on the patent. The article notes that Meta’s memorialization policy preserves accounts without changes, and it highlights legal and regulatory considerations in the EU and US surrounding post-mortem AI representations. It also references prior examples from Microsoft, Amazon and others that explored AI representations of deceased individuals, which did not go into production.