Joaquin Oliver was killed in the Parkland school shooting. Now with AI, his voice can be heard again. The rise of generative AI tools like Microsoft’s ChatGPT and ElevenLabs make it more accessible for anyone to create a bot of loved ones who have passed.
WSJ’s Joanna Stern sat down with Joaquin’s parents to find out how and why they are preserving their son’s legacy this way.
0:00 Deepfake voices of kids killed by gun violence
1:26 How the voice was made
2:56 What the voice says
5:05 The impact
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I swear, once customized androids are commercially available, these parents are going to be first in line.
This looks like a black mirror episode. Scary
A.I. voices will not do anything to curtail gun violence in the U.S. In fact, Biden's open border policy has led to hordes of violent criminals entering the U.S. Restrictive gun control leads to people "panic buying" guns and large-capacity magazines.
Powerful
Well that's incredibly ghoulish. Surely the parents will never regret it as they slowly forget their son's actual voice as it's replaced in their memories by an AI generated undead puppet.
Totally the gun's fault! Not the ones who pull the trigger.
Woahh
wsj, tell artificial intelligence that this is not as same as possessing a machine with a person's spirit
People are more creeped out by scary computer voices than an M16 in their children's class rooms…
Sounds similar to the iOS 17 Personal Voice NGL 😅
They are using an ai version of their son to lie to people?
What is immunity from prosecution of a head of state? This means that the head of a power can kill his opponents, subordinate the courts, legislative, and executive powers to himself, destroy the media and bring all the country’s subjects to their knees, force them to live in fear and then in poverty, as happened in Russia, Iran, Northern Korea. Does the US want to become a big North Korea?
You're sponsoring the dead now?
This just doesn't feel right….
🙏🏼
This is a waste of time. Concentrate on Putins' actions.
Mass shootings / Such an American thing
This is will ruined history.
An AI voice robocall of Joe Biden telling people not to vote in the primaries happened like 2 weeks ago. Tech like this is already being used for evil, and it has nothing to do with this company. This is an extreme response to an extreme situation. Clearly kids getting killed isnt enough to have some common sense gun laws. Yet all of you just talk about how this is like some tv show or book and not how horrible it is we need to resort to things like this.
AI is a great innovation but at the same time, criminals are using it and looting unsuspecting people.
This is not ok and is actually necromancy.
Countries can function without armed civilians too,USA has no Gaza
So people are no resorting to scum bag tactics by trying to guilt and shame people into getting what they want?
Dude is never gonna let his son rest by turning him into a ghost to haunt people. It's funny how these Parkland victim families never talk about the fact that the Sheriff's Office let their kids die because they were scared of gunfire. Either they were told to be quiet or they were paid off, no loving parent would ever let that lie.
The only solution is to place armed guards at schools and it has always been the only solution. They've tried for 50+ years to get rid of guns and it is not ever going to happen just like restrictions on freedom of speech are never gonna happen.
This is fascinating but I’ve got chills!
Are they going to utilize AI to use the voices of those people 2 million times where firearms were used to save their lives..
The goal is to strip you of your civil rights.
Gun control doesn’t work , criminals always get guns ! I do feel terrible about the shootings that have happened in America but we need to focus on mental health and what our kids listen to and watch !
My heart breaks just listening to their voices, especially knowing they are nomore. These voices should cut through non believers of the gun control. This is ridiculous, that parents had to resolve to do this to make the deaf ears to hear again.
Parents are violators of civil rights…shame on them
Pathetic lies to take away your Constitutional Rights.
ALEX JONES IS INNOCENT
Disgusting
This is so disgusting and disrespectful of this victim. He never asked to made a pawn in his parent’s politics. Respect his memory by LETTING HIM REST.
It's interesting that you can easily say things that are impossible to say like "I was killed".
6:30:I had to turn on the closed captioning to see if the boy hoped to one day be big like Lenin or Lennon. Thankfully, it was the latter. RIP.
I understand their feelings, but not their actions.
Obama’s “Promise” program is the root cause of the Parkland shooting.
Not a gun.
Black mirror episode come to life