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Jim Acosta interviews ‘made-up’ AI avatar of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver

cnnAugust 5, 2025
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Jim Acosta interviews ‘made-up’ AI avatar of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver
Artificially generated video of Oliver, one of 17 victims of the shooting, addresses Acosta in ‘one of a kind interview’Jim Acosta, former chief White House correspondent for CNN, stirred co...

Artificially generated video of Oliver, one of 17 victims of the shooting, addresses Acosta in ‘one of a kind interview’

Jim Acosta, former chief White House correspondent for CNN, stirred controversy on Monday when he sat for a conversation with a reanimated version of a person who died more than seven years ago. His guest was an avatar of Joaquin Oliver, one of the 17 people killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018.

The video shows Oliver, captured via a real photograph and animated with generative artificial intelligence, wearing a beanie with a solemn expression. Acosta asks the avatar: “What happened to you?”

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Source: Guardian - World News

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