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To Gabriel Horcasitas, the man who shot me, it is a shame we encountered each other that day in those circumstances,” the AI avatar of Christopher Pelkey said. “In another life we probably could have been friends. I believe in forgiveness and a God who forgives. I still do.”

I find this nauseatingly disgusting and a disgrace that this was shown in a court of all places.

No, this man does not believe in forgiveness or a God because he’s dead. He never said this, somebody wrote this script and a computer just made a video off it with his likeness.

Fuck everything about this, this should be prohibited

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Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Time to update my will.

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- bampop@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  “Hi, I’m Manifish_Destiny speaking to you from beyond the grave. I’m happy to say that even though I had some skepticism of AI avatars and even put something about that in my will, I just didn’t understand its potential to embody my true self. But now I do, so you can disregard all that. Come to think of it, you can disregard the rest of the will as well, I’ve got some radical new ideas…”
  
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  - futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    “Hey kids, this is futatorius phonin’ in from the Great Beyond. Fry that fucker’s ass or I’m going to haunt you and all your progeny until humankind’s extinction event, and then I’ll keep on messing with you in the afterlife forever!”
    
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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Fuck everything about this, this should be prohibited

Why? Who exactly is being harmed by this? The dead guy, certainly isn’t. It’s no different than a statement from a family member. The method of delivery does not make a difference to the material content. You’re acting as if it’s putting words in the mouth of someone who’s died but everyone intellectually knows that the AI isn’t contacting the dead.

You would have a hard time arguing that someone could be confused into believing that this was actually the opinion of the deceased.

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- kiagam@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You have a lot of faith in people’s logic level. Most people read at 6th grade level. There is a person saying “I think this”, do you really think everyone in there thought “I’m completely unaware of what the deceased thought”
  
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- futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  Who exactly is being harmed by this?
  
  The person being sentenced.
  
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  - echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The sentencing has already happened at that point so no harm is happening to anyone.
    
    Everyone is acting as if this is going to affect decisions but it isn’t because this is a statement from the abreathed, which is something they are allowed to do in whatever format they wish. I agree it’s kind of weird but it’s definitely not against any rule no matter what the down voters think
    
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Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This wasn’t testimony, it was an impact statement.

Impact statements are wild and crazy and this isn’t surprising in anyway

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- phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  No, this wasn’t an impact statement either.
  
  This was a huntch of pixels moved around by a huge wasteful amount of CPU power. The actual victim is dead, he can’t talk and people are putting words in his mouth and it shouldn’t be allowed.
  
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  - Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It was literally in the article explaining that this was presented as the victim impact statement.
    
    Have you learned nothing about modern “news” ? Dont be part of the problem of spreading misinformation, be diligent and responsible. And ita okay to make mistakes, own them and move forward. Its not easy to get your information correct everytime, theres no shame in that, only in ignoring your responsibility to self correct voluntarily when you find out
    
    Peace be upon you, we need to work together, because even though I’m calling out the inaccuracy in your comment, i do believe using this technology for this purpose is heinous
    
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