On August 4, 2025, former CNN anchor Jim Acosta interviewed an AI-generated video of slain parkland student Joaquin Oliver in which the AI character pushed more gun control.

Acosta opened the segment by pointing out that although Joaquin was killed in the heinous February 14, 2018, Parkland school shooting, “His parents…have created an AI version [of Joaquin] to deliver a powerful message on gun violence.”

The interview was eerie, somewhat due to the simple reality that AI is artificial by nature, but also due to the fact that the mouth of the AI-generated version of Joaquin is out of time with the words spoken throughout the segment. Moreover, the voice used by the AI-generated character fluctuates in sound.

Beyond the eeriness, the AI-generated version of Joaquin delivers standard t

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