In all seriousness, what do you expect them to do? They can’t have a checkbox “I am dead” for you to click after you pass, so they’re using a bit of data science to try and reduce the heartache of accidentally reminding someone when you might be dead.
I’m no fan of facebook, I don’t have an account and I think they are a net negative in the world, but sometimes they’re just trying to do the right thing, and credit where it’s due
I work in a foreign country, so I guess there's the possibility that remote family might at least be concerned if something like that happened.
>In all seriousness, what do you expect them to do?
give me control over when I broadcast out birthday reminders, because as an infrequent user I would simply turn it off. Problem solved.
Obviously it is not in Facebook's interest to give me control over my feed or activity to this degree, so it will never happen.
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."
Can't wait until the facebook neural net declares me dead because of my sclerotic post activity and my family thinks I've kicked the bucket when they don't get an announcenment on my birthday.
Maybe instead of trying to solve everything with 'artificial intelligence' we ought to design these systems in ways that are less prone to these sorts of misbehaviours. Seems like building systems that work 80% of the time and then hoping that throwing ML engineers at the issue solves the last 20% is the new hot design pattern.