The Facebook video depicted a girl with dyed blonde hair, lounging on a plush outside patio in gray sweatpants. Her legs were crossed, and she faced the camera. In the bottom left corner of the video was an emblem of a blue dolphin jumping through a heart.

“Hi there, I’m Rachel DeMaio,” said the girl. But something was off. Rachel’s body didn’t move with her face.

“You’re probably wondering why I’m not with you speaking right now in person,” she said. “It’s because I’m speaking to you from heaven.”

The video was AI-generated, created by Rachel’s family to spread awareness about the harms of fentanyl. The real Rachel DeMaio, from Akron, Ohio, died in 2016 at the age of 17 after overdosing on carfentanil, an extremely potent form of the synthetic opioid that’s killed hundreds of thousands

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