Want to live forever? Meta patented an AI model that would keep your profile active after you die | Fortune

"Meta was recently granted a patent in Dec, 2025 that would essentially allow the social media platform to post on a dormant user's behalf-whether they took a break from social media or long after they've passed away. The patent, first filed in 2023, describes a large language model that "simulates" a user's social media activity, using a user's comments, likes, or content to respond to other users and also references technology that would simulate video or audio calls with users."

"Meta's Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth noted in the patent that account inactivity (say that of a deceased person's) can affect other users' experiences, and the impact of inactivity is "much more severe and permanent" when a user is deceased, he wrote. Experts say this rationale is a new way of justifying bringing users' content back to life."

""That's a really interesting shift because that suggests that user death is like an engagement problem." Elaine Kasket, a cyberpsychologist, told Fortune, describing how she interpreted the patent. She has studied digital afterlives for 21 years-long before social media or AI became a part of everyday life-and what happens to our data after we're gone."

Meta received a patent in December 2025 for technology that uses large language models to simulate a deceased or inactive user's social media activity. The system would post content, respond to other users, and simulate video or audio calls using the user's existing account data, comments, and likes. Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth justified this by framing account inactivity as an engagement problem affecting other users' experiences. While AI-driven digital resurrection exists, this patent uniquely leverages deceased users' existing accounts to continue interactions. Meta stated it has no immediate plans to implement this technology, though it will continue exploring large language model applications.

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