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After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court (www.npr.org)
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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Cliffnotes?

[–] BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)
  • Woman's brother was killed in a road rage incident
  • In preparing her victim impact statement for the court, she struggled to find a way to properly represent her brother's voice
  • Her husband works with AI and helped her generate a video of her brother for the victim impact statement
  • The video was very well received and apparently true to her brother's personality. Though she didn't forgive the killer, she knew her brother would. So, in the AI video, "he" did.
  • After all the real people made their statements to the judge, the video was played
  • The judge loved it and thanked the woman
[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 10 points 2 days ago

In preparing her victim impact statement for the court, she struggled to find a way to properly represent her brother’s voice

Should clarify that the woman wrote the script. The AI just generated the voice and image. The AI read the woman's script who wrote it in the tone of her brother putting aside her own feelings.

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Appreciated – my apologies that I wasn’t clear. I was curious about the connection to “did we learn nothing from doom 2016” that the OP referenced.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You’re killing me.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Nah. That Doom Guys MO. Rip and tear until it's done.

[–] carrion0409@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

For this ? The guy who was brought back through Ai was killed in a hit and run then they brought the ai version of him to court to give a statement from beyond the grave of sorts. I think it's immoral as fuck but I'm sure I'll get told why it's actually not.

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was wondering what happened in “doom 2016”. And now I can’t tell if you’re summarizing the article or what happened in doom 2016.

[–] carrion0409@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So basically the uac was fucking around with technology and went to far in their pursuit and opened a portal to hell in an attempt to harness it as a power source. Then the game itself kicks off after everything goes wrong and all hell breaks lose.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

How does that relate to videos of dead people speaking someone else's words? The only reanimated people in Doom 2016 are the shambling zombies.