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Jim Acosta published a video interview with an AI-generated avatar of Joaquin Oliver.

The avatar was created by Oliver’s parents to promote conversations around gun violence.

AI recreations of deceased individuals are increasingly being used in advocacy and legal settings.

LOS ANGELES - Former CNN correspondent Jim Acosta shared a new video Monday in which he interviews an artificial intelligence-generated version of Joaquin Oliver, one of the 17 people killed in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

The avatar, animated from a real photograph using generative AI, appears wearing a beanie and speaks in a monotone digital voice. The segment opens with Acosta asking, "What happened to you?" to which the AI version of Oliver resp

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