Deleting an account no longer guarantees a person's disappearance from the digital environment. As Yaroslav Seliverstov, an AI expert at "University 2035," told RIA "Novosti," neural networks accumulate and store users' behavioral patterns, forming a so-called inalienable digital footprint. Even after a user has erased their search history or deactivated their profile, their digital copy continues to exist within the parameters of trained models.

This is not about storing files, but about a deeper process. Individual elements of speech style, visual image, and social patterns are "embedded" into the neural network's weights during its training on large datasets, including social media posts. Seliverstov explained that extracting such information or forcing the model to "forget" a specific person is technically extremely difficult, as their digital footprint is distributed across many sources.

The situation creates a legal vacuum. It is unclear who owns the digital copy of a person, formed by AI based on disparate data. The expert believes that in the coming years, states will shift from regulating data storage to regulating AI memory. The right to demand the deletion of one's digital patterns from training samples and generative models will emerge, as will mandatory labeling of digital twins and the need to obtain consent for their creation. In fact, society is approaching an era where an account can be deleted, but one's digital identity can no longer be erased.