Setting up camp in the uncanny valley, disgraced former CNN “journalist” Jim Acosta made headlines Monday night after he announced he had interviewed the A.I. facsimile of Joaquin “Guac” Oliver, a student killed in the Parkland School Shooting, on his eponymous podcast. If that wasn’t disturbing enough, a follow up interview with Manuel Oliver, Joaquin’s dad, revealed that his wife would “spend hours” talking with the A.I. cadaver of her son because loved to hear it say “I love you mommy.”
“But first, today is August the 4th. That happens to be the birthday of my first guest, Joaquin Oliver died in the Parkland school shooting in Florida back in 2018, but his parents Manuel and Patricia have created an AI version of their son to deliver a powerful message on gun violence,” Acosta boasted near the top of the show.
Acosta wasted no time in using the A.I. zombie of Joaquin for precisely what his father built it for, to use his son’s digital corpse to push for anti-gun rights legislation. The A.I. morbidly responded with robotic speech patterns as it swapped between vastly different voices.
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