(New York) An ex-Journalist star of CNN is found in the fire of criticism in the United States for having carried out an interview with an avatar generated by the AI taking the voice and the features of a young man killed in 2018 during a mass killing.
Jim Acosta, ex-corners of Donald Trump’s White House and Bane, Farouche defender of a strict firearms, today animates a YouTube channel.
On Monday, he interviewed an avatar generated by the AI of Joaquin Oliver, who died at 17 in the Killer of Parkland in Florida, who killed 17 in 2018, one of the deadliest in the country.
The interview is not very realistic: the image of the interviewee is static, his voice lacks nuances. The young man in the image pleads for “a mixture of more strict laws on the supervision of weapons, support for mental health and community engagement”.
Photo Rebecca Blackwell, Associated Press Archives
Joaquin Oliver (in the photo on the right), died at 17 in the Killer of Parkland, Florida
Relayed by Jim Acosta on the Bluesky social network, the interview aroused many furious comments.
“It is unacceptable, macabre and manipulator. How much should you be dehumanized to think it was a good idea? “Writes a surfer.
“There are survivors of this killing that you could interview, and you would get their true words and opinions instead of a pure invention,” reacts another.
Several right -wing media took the opportunity to settle their accounts with this declared opponent of the American president.
“It’s simply disgusting,” reacted on Fox News Joe Concha, one of the chroniclers of the preservative’s favorite channel.
“It was more the manifestation of a bizarre AI than an interview,” wrote journalist Kirsten Fleming in tabloid New York Post. “It is also false. And grotesque. As a dystopian scenario that has become reality ”.
For his defense, Jim Acosta posted a video by Joaquin Oliver’s father defending this fictitious interview.
“If your problem is AI and well this is not the right problem,” says Manuel Oliver, also in favor of tightening the legislation on firearms. “The real problem is that my son was killed eight years ago.”
