Jim Acosta's "interview" of an AI-generated mass shooting victim is, if nothing else, the ideal artifact for the days of the peak AI boom. Send this thing to the Smithsonian, put it on loop in an exhibition hall next to the Ghiblified Twitter avatars and the AI-generated witness testimony that led a judge to hand down a harsher sentence. To back up: Acosta, CNN's former White House correspondent and Trump irritant, who's recently launched a Substack and YouTube show, aired a segment in which he questions an AI-generated simulacrum of Joaquin Oliver, one of the teenagers killed in the 2018 Parkland high school massacre.
To back up: Acosta, CNN's former White House correspondent and Trump irritant, who's recently launched a Substack and YouTube show, aired a segment in which he questions an AI-generated simulacrum of Joaquin Oliver, one of the teenagers killed in the 2018 Parkland high school massacre.