There’s just so many uncaring shits online.
I wonder how much "hate" on the internet is this... but the reality is that is how you "see" them in your head rather than what they're actually saying/believe. A lot of negative responses to some of the things I say is a strawman of what I actually believe/said.
also, doesn’t that make this entire thing worse?
No? This is literally a Victim Impact Statement. We see these all the time after the case has determined guilt and before sentencing. This is the opportunity granted to the victims to outline how they feel on the matter.
There have been countless court cases where the victims say things like "I know that my husband would have understood and forgiven [... drone on for a 6 page essay]" or even done this exact thing, but without the "AI" video/audio (home videos with dubbed overlay of a loved one talking about what the deceased person would want/think about it). It's not abnormal and has been accepted as a way for the aggrieved to voice their wishes to the court. All that's changed here was the presentation. This didn't affect the finding of if the person was guilty as it was played after the finding and was only played before sentencing. This is also the customary time where impact statements are made. The "AI" didn't make the script. This is just a mildly fancier impact statement and that's it. She could have dubbed it over home video with a fiverr voice actor. Would that change how you feel about it? I see no evidence that the court treated this anything different than any other impact statement. I don't think anyone would be fooled that the dead person is magically alive and directly making the statement. It's clear who made it the whole time.
The deceased's sister wrote the script. AI/LLMs didnt write anything. It's in the article. So the assumptions you made for the middle two paragraphs dont really apply to this specific news article.
Waaah cry more!
I added to the conversation by answering the question directly asked. Which someone who read the article would have known the answer for.
I'm sorry that reading comprehension is hard for you.
Acting like more than half of the comments on this post aren't arguing in bad faith and thinking that the AI generated everything wholesale (content and script included) just shows how delusional you all are.
Edit: The funny part is that mkwt, the person I replied to, updooted the post. meaning that they legitimately found that information useful since they went out of their way to updoot. So you, and the other 5 people who don't understand how to read, can pound sand.
Nah. That Doom Guys MO. Rip and tear until it's done.
In preparing her victim impact statement for the court, she struggled to find a way to properly represent her brother’s voice
Should clarify that the woman wrote the script. The AI just generated the voice and image. The AI read the woman's script who wrote it in the tone of her brother putting aside her own feelings.
The 37-year-old Army combat veteran’s family created the AI statement using a previously recorded video, a picture and a script written by the victim’s sister, Stacey Wales.
“I said, ‘I have to let him speak,’ and I wrote what he would have said, and I said, ‘That’s pretty good, I’d like to hear that if I was the judge,’” Wales told AZFamily.
From the article. Where Wales is his sister.
Wales herself is not ready to forgive Horcasitas, but when she wrote the script, she says she knew her brother would speak of forgiveness. “He stood for people, and for God, and for love,” she says.
From a related article. https://www.azfamily.com/2025/05/06/chandler-road-rage-shooting-victim-speaks-using-artificial-intelligence/
The outrage in the comments about this is stupid. It's clear that this is an impact statement from the family... the "AI" used here was to just generate the image of him reading the impact statement that his sister wrote.
Was written and created by the family... they are victims. they just wrote it in the context of the deceased.
It was purchased a while ago by a less than reputable company. But the service was court tested no log. I've not had issue... but the risk could still be there that they've started logging.
Edit: Can always set an exit point in another country so that its unlikely that logs can be pulled regardless.
Edit2: oh and its scriptable to grab the port assigned from the pia app and feed it to qbittorent :chef's kiss:
people like to shit on PIA. but they still support port forwarding.
It's a victim impact statement. It's not evidence. Victim Impact Statements are provided/read/whatever AFTER the finding of guilt, but before sentencing.