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Drew Harwell
@drewharwell.com

New on the backlash to Jim Acosta's "interview" of a dead Parkland teen's AI avatar, with its clunky phrases ("so much fun to the series") and "ghoulish" display. "Can't possibly represent what that child wants to say in any reasonable way" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @willoremus.com

washingtonpost.comJim Acosta sparks fury with ‘interview’ of dead Parkland teen’s AI avatarThe video adds to the growing list of AI-video resurrections that people have called “unsettling” and “grotesque.”

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Drew Harwell
@drewharwell.com

. @jimacosta.bsky.social tells me the boy's family asked if he would "help them remember their son," that he was "honored to help," and that he agrees with the father that "if you’re bothered more by this than the gun violence that took his son then there is something truly wrong with our society."