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When a journalist uses AI to interview a dead child, isn’t it time to ask what the boundaries should be?

The virtual world can bring a kind of friendship and a kind of connection, even to the grieving. But it can also facilitate exploitation of very human needs, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Backlash After 'Interview' With AI Avatar Of US School Shooting Victim

Independent journalist Jim Acosta faced a torrent of online criticism Wednesday after he posted an "interview" conducted with an AI avatar of a US school shooting victim.

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Ugh, now we’re interviewing shooting victims brought back to life through AI

We're not sure how to feel about this.

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Jim Acosta Slammed for 'Interviewing' AI Version of Parkland Shooting Victim: Who is Joaquin Oliver?

Jim Acosta sparks outrage after publishing a video interview with an AI-generated avatar of Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver, reigniting ethical debates over digital resurrection and journalism.

International Business Times UK

Jim Acosta says he was ‘honored’ to interview AI Parkland victim amid intense backlash

‘It was our idea, it was our plan, and it’s still our plan,’ Manuel Oliver said in a video response, pushing back against the criticism Jim Acosta has received over the interview.

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Jim Acosta interviews ‘made-up’ AI avatar of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver

Artificially generated video of Oliver, one of 17 victims of the shooting, addresses Acosta in ‘one of a kind interview’

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How the Mother of a School Shooting Victim Is Fighting Back With Video Games

'The Final Exam' is a PC survival horror game made by the nonprofit, Change the Ref, in collaboration with a game developer, Webcore Games, about surviving a school shooting.

Inverse

A school shooting videogame made by the parents of a victim aims to change minds about gun control: 'This is not a scary game, it's an educational game'

The Final Exam is a harsh recreation of the horrors of school shootings, and a call to do something about it.

PC Gamer

SB parade shooting: 1 killed, 21 injured

The shooting interrupted a CNN panel on gun reform on the sixth anniversary of the Parkland school shooting

Salon

Voices of the dead: shooting victims plead for gun reform with AI-voice messages

Voices of people lost to gun violence have been re-created using AI to call for action, now six years to the day after the Parkland shooting that killed 17

The Guardian - US

Gun violence killed them. Now, their voices will lobby Congress to do more using AI

On the 6th anniversary of the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., gun control advocates experiment with AI-generated audio messages of recreated voices of victims of gun violence pleading for change.

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Her son was killed in Parkland. She hopes a harrowing picture book will finally cause lawmakers to act

‘Joaquin’s First School Shooting’ borrows the aesthetics and language of children’s book, but its contents are purposely chilling. Patricia Oliver, whose son Joaquin was 17 when he died in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, tells Clémence Michallon how lawmakers are responding to the book

The Independent UK

Parkland father arrested during House hearing on gun rights - Roll Call

A man whose son was killed in the Parkland, Fla., school shooting was arrested outside a hearing on Second Amendment rights.

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From Parkland families, parting words of grace and sorrow

It has been five years since the massacre at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School claimed 17 lives, an observance that is different from previous ones.

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Parkland school shooter sentenced to life in prison

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — For the 17 who lost their lives, the gunman was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Daily Mirror

Parkland shooter gets life in prison for gunning down 17 in Valentine's school attack

Student Nikolas Cruz was 19 when he opened fire for approximately nine minutes, killing 17 people at his former high school in Parkland, Florida, on February 14 2018

The Independent UK

Former classmates of Parkland shooter face him on final day of sentencing: ‘Without your stupid gun, you are nothing”

Survivor Sam Fuentes and victim Joaquin Oliver’s girlfriend Victoria Gonzales directly addressed the confessed shooter

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Families’ hope for Parkland killer: ‘A name on a tombstone no one visits’

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With his fate sealed and his life spared, the gunman who murdered 17 people stepped into a Broward County courtroom Tuesday to face the ire of those whose lives he shattered.

The Independent UK

Victims of the 2018 Parkland, Florida, high school massacre

A jury has recommended a sentence of life without parole for the attacker in the 2018 shooting massacre that left 17 people dead at a high school in Parkland, Florida

Tribune News Service

Life or death for Parkland school gunman: It’s in the jury’s hands now

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Nearly three months after testimony started in the sentencing trial of confessed Parkland gunman Nikolas Cruz, the defendant’s fate is officially in the hands of a jury — seven men and five women who just asked a Broward judge for hours of testimony to be read…

Tribune News Service

Life or death for Stoneman Douglas gunman: It’s in the jury’s hands now

The Texas Tribune

Uvalde protesters hold vigil, demand that school district suspend officers

Brett Cross launched the protest Sept. 27, joined by other Uvalde families who say the school district hasn’t held five of its officers accountable for their part in law enforcement’s delayed action during the May 24 shooting.

Tribune News Service

Parkland’s 1200 building: Jurors view crime scene of chilling destruction, frozen in time moments after bloodbath

PARKLAND, Fla. — Jurors in the Parkland mass shooting trial were taken to the crime scene Thursday, a scene that is as much a time capsule as it is a towering piece of evidence in a criminal case that decides whether mercy should be offered to a gunman determined to…

The Independent UK

Jurors in Nikolas Cruz sentencing trial visit site of Parkland high school shooting

Bloodstained building will be demolished when prosecturs are finished using it as evidence

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