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“I Died That Day” Lawmakers in the US are getting calls from dead kids
Lawmakers in the US are getting calls from dead kids, causing additional dilemmas in the legality issue of deepfakes.
However, the topic of this piece isn’t gun control; instead, it’s a pivotal point in artificial intelligence and the use of deepfakes to disseminate messages and communicate with the dead — but will this usage turn out to be illegal? A journalist from The Wall Street Journal, Joanna Stern, sat down with Joaquin’s parents to ask some poignant and deep-searching questions about using this avenue of the deepfake and why they use their son’s legacy this way. The Federal Communications Commission recently declared that using audio deepfakes in scam robocalls is prohibited, citing instances in which individuals were duped by voices that appeared to be familiar relatives or coworkers.
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