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Algorithms · August 2025

A news anchor 'interviewed' a dead Parkland teen's AI avatar. Viewers were appalled

Jim Acosta aired an interview with an AI-generated avatar of Joaquin Oliver, a teen killed in the Parkland shooting. Viewers called it unsettling and grotesque, another entry in the growing catalog of AI resurrections nobody asked for.

Source: The Washington Post

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