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Jesus Christ. Nah. There needs to be some kind of AI awareness training. This is beyond dumb.
This is awesome. Next we can have AI Jesus endorsing Trump, AI Nicole Simpson telling us who the real killer was, and AI Abraham Lincoln saying that whole Civil War thing was a big misunderstanding and the Confederacy was actually just fine. The possibilities are endless. I can hardly wait!
Eww, that's such a ghoulish thing to do; letting a distortion of a dead person, that could never act as the deceased person, forgive their killer. Do they even know if he would've done this if he had a say before being killed?
I'd rather have somebody puppet my corpse like in Weekend at Bernie's. Basically the same thing but more authentic
This is some Weekend at Bernie's 2 shit.
Ok, so his family believed he would forgive, wrote statement for him and made AI make it look like the victim said it. And this is somehow relevant to the court? It's all nice the family thinks this but what has it got with justice?
But, the Judge, Todd Lang, loved that AI. It was well received. Go figure.
We're living in a parallel universe now.
Why would a judge allow this? It's like showing the jury a made-for-TV movie based on the trial they're hearing.
Not only did he allow it,
While the state asked for a nine-and-a-half year sentence, the judge handed Horcasitas a 10-and-a-half year sentence after being so moved by the video, Pelkey’s family said, noting the judge even referred to the video in his statement.
It has about as much evidentiary value as a ouija board, but since the victim was a veteran and involved with a church and the judge likes those things we can ignore pesky little things like standards of proof and prejudice
Jury duty would be a lot more fun if trials were narrated by the Unsolved Mysteries guy
This is some Black Mirror level shit.
Unless stated otherwise, please do not use my likeness for legal proceedings on the event of my untimely passing. Please.
An AI version of Christopher Pelkey appeared in an eerily realistic video to forgive his killer... "In another life, we probably could’ve been friends. I believe in forgiveness, and a God who forgives."
The message was well-received by Judge Todd Lang, who told the courtroom, “I love that AI."
While the state asked for a nine-and-a-half year sentence, the judge handed Horcasitas a 10-and-a-half year sentence after being so moved by the video.
Society is on the verge of total collapse
EDIT: I am reading this over multiple times, and I think the judge is being sarcastic