Ok, so his family believed he would forgive, wrote statement for him and made AI make it look like the victim said it. And this is somehow relevant to the court? It’s all nice the family thinks this but what has it got with justice?
But, the Judge, Todd Lang, loved that AI. It was well received. Go figure.
We’re living in a parallel universe now.
The future distopia is now.
WTF?
That man did not say anything. A computer algorithm smashed a video together they incidentally uses his likeness, nothing more
The fuck is wrong with people.
I’m glad I’m not the only one thinking this
I’d rather have somebody puppet my corpse like in Weekend at Bernie’s. Basically the same thing but more authentic
This is some Weekend at Bernie’s 2 shit.
Unless stated otherwise, please do not use my likeness for legal proceedings on the event of my untimely passing. Please.
It’s too late. There’s like fifty Tetris games.
damn
I swear to Christ, if I get murdered and my family makes an AI video of me forgiving them then I will haunt the shit out of them.
Who will you haunt? The murderer or your family?
Huh. Everybody I guess?
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Society is on the verge of total collapse
EDIT: I am reading this over multiple times, and I think the judge is being sarcastic
Frankly any society that embraces this sort of thing should collapse, because the alternative is too disturbing.
and I think the judge is being sarcastic
I hope so.
This is awesome. Next we can have AI Jesus endorsing Trump, AI Nicole Simpson telling us who the real killer was, and AI Abraham Lincoln saying that whole Civil War thing was a big misunderstanding and the Confederacy was actually just fine. The possibilities are endless. I can hardly wait!
and AI Abraham Lincoln saying that whole Civil War thing was a big misunderstanding and the Confederacy was actually just fine
Considering he loved the Dixieland song, and his views on society normal for his time, and the intelligence of the average citizen, and those “AI’s” being an extrapolator of meaningless traits on the average citizen’s intelligence - we might actually learn that he’s sorry, he was wrong and we should all go rebel.
I didn’t know there was a Nicole Simpson, I thought there were just Homer, Marge, Abe, Bart, Maggie, and Lisa Simpson.
Eww, that’s such a ghoulish thing to do; letting a distortion of a dead person, that could never act as the deceased person, forgive their killer. Do they even know if he would’ve done this if he had a say before being killed?
This is some Black Mirror level shit.
Why even do an impact statement? All Christian victims should be assumed to forgive their attackers, right?
While the state asked for a nine-and-a-half year sentence, the judge handed Horcasitas a 10-and-a-half year sentence after being so moved by the video, Pelkey’s family said, noting the judge even referred to the video in his statement
So first of all I guess all that stuff in the video about forgiveness wasn’t really a factor. I’m just fascinated who called for this? Like was it the prosecution? In what context? Was this part of their closing arguments? Did the defense not object? So many questions.
You have to wonder if this is not grounds for an appeal.
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Legally speaking, this was a victim impact statement.
Convicted criminals have long had the common law right of allocution, where they can say anything they want directly to the judge before sentence is passed.
Starting a few decades ago, several states decided that the victims of crime should have a similar right to address the judge before sentencing. And so the victim impact statement was created.
It’s not evidence, and it’s not under oath, but it is allowed to influence the sentencing decision.
(Of course, victim impact statements are normally given by real victims).
An AI version of Christopher Pelkey appeared in an eerily realistic video to forgive his killer… “In another life, we probably could’ve been friends. I believe in forgiveness, and a God who forgives.”
“…and while it took my murder to get my wings as an angel in heaven, you still on Earth can get close with Red Bull ™. Red Bull ™ gives you wings!” /s
Fucking disgusting
Jesus Christ. Nah. There needs to be some kind of AI awareness training. This is beyond dumb.
