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Is there no limit to the depth to which the propagandists of the mainstream media will sink to push Democrat narratives? That’s a rhetorical question, because we all know the answer is no, none. But disgraced former CNN anchor Jim Acosta may have set the bar at a new low.
On Monday Acosta promoted what he declared to be “a one-of-a-kind interview” with – if you think you are you ready for this, you’re not – a talking, AI-generated likeness of Joaquin Oliver, a student slain in the 2018 Parkland school shooting. The avatar was created by his own parents in order to “deliver a powerful message on gun violence.”
It is an even creepier media interview than you might imagine. As the AI-generated version of Joaquin spits out support for the Left’s usual gun control solutions and then engages in bizarrely unnatural small talk, Acosta treats the phantom as if it truly is channeling the voice and thoughts of a living person, though it looks and sounds like anything but that.
Asked what happened to him, the AI character answers Acosta stiffly, with no natural pauses for punctuation, “I appreciate your curiosity I was taken from this world too soon due to gun violence while at school it’s important that we talk about these issues so we can create a safer future for everyone what would you like to know more about?”
Asked for his solution to gun violence, the AI character unreels (pun intended) a pre-digested Democrat talking point: “I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support, and community engagement. We need to make safe spaces for conversations and connections making sure everyone feels seen and heard it’s about building a culture of kindness and understanding what do you think about that?”
What I think about it is, let’s call it what it really is: gun confiscation, not control. We already have common-sense gun control and it doesn’t stop criminals or the criminally mentally ill from gaining access to guns and targeting innocents in gun-free zones, because that’s what criminals do – they break the law. What Democrats truly want is to abolish the Second Amendment and disarm American citizens, but they know that won’t sell, so they’re forced to keep pushing for more and more incremental restrictions and burdens on law-abiding gun owners.
But back to the interview. Asked by Acosta to “tell us about yourself,” the AI character responds like he’s quoting his own eulogy: “I’m all about love laughter and living life to the fullest I cherish my family and friends and always try to spread joy wherever I go though my life was cut short I want to keep inspiring others to connect and advocate for change.”
After chatting with the non-entity awkwardly about basketball and movies (“I love a good movie!” the AI Joaquin exults), full of Joaquin’s flatly-delivered platitudes about inspiration and hope, Acosta ends the interview by saying, “God bless you,” which the avatar responds to by saying “That means a lot to me.” No, it doesn’t – you’re an AI-generated illusion without emotions or sentience. Nothing “means” anything to you.
Social media users – even on the Left – were unsurprisingly appalled. “You’re interviewing an AI recreation of a person who was murdered by a spree killer?” one Bluesky user asked Acosta. “Wow. It’s hard to accept that no one around you suggested that this was probably in the worst possible taste.”
“You don’t have an interview. You’re facilitating a grotesque puppet show, using grieving parent’s heartbreak for a bit,” another Bluesky user stated. “The bar is in hell, and you still managed to trip on it.”
Conservative commentator Stephen L. Miller (not the Trump administration adviser), slammed the “journalist” for his “ghoulish act of talking to AI ghosts.”
The Federalist’s Sean Davis rightly called the interview “demonic” and blasted Acosta for conversing with “scripted AI chatbot holograms of dead people.”
Reason.com’s Robby Soave tweeted, “This is so insane and evil. It should never be done. I’m speechless.”
Acosta then interviewed Joaquin’s father Manuel, who explained that he wants viewers to know that he is fully aware this AI creation is not his real son, but he is happy just to hear Joaquin’s voice again; indeed, he says, the boy’s mother Patricia asks the avatar questions for hours, just to hear him speak. “She loves to hear him say, ‘I love you, mommy.”
I have compassion for Joaquin’s parents and don’t wish to condemn them for wanting to see and hear their son again, even if only as a technologically generated likeness. I am the father of five, and I cannot imagine the devastation of having a child snatched from you in a heinous crime like a school shooting. I don’t know how that hole in a parent’s heart could ever be filled again. It’s something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. However, there is something deeply disturbing about this attempt to reanimate a murdered child to fill that painful emptiness. I’m no psychiatrist, but I can’t imagine this is a healthy way to process such a tragedy.
And it’s not healthy for our society. I’m already deeply opposed to the unrelenting push of globalist elites to get us to surrender control of every aspect of our lives to AI, but embracing AI entities as friends, girlfriends, and stand-ins for deceased loved ones will warp us in ways humanity was never meant to wrestle with. It is an invitation to, as Sean Davis put it, the demonic.
In any case, there is no question that Jim Acosta’s exploitation of this grief to push the Democrat call for gun confiscation is as reprehensible as journalism can get, which is saying quite a lot.
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The lying low life Sidewinders/Polecats low life lower then a snake in a wagon rut anything to get us to support more totally useless Gun Control Laws after Hogg and his Pathetic little mob of Useful Idiots failed. They have no respect for the dead unless its to support their causes and the Useless Nations(UN)Small Arms Control Treaty signed by Traitor/Democrat John Kerry for Traitor/Democrat Obama
keep working on it – keep digging to find the root of these low lives – you’re onto something to help define them with “shock and awe” that’s what we need to get through to the hypnotized by the serpent’s rattle
Immediately Saul and the witch at Endor comes to mind.
Every Democrat that reads your post is scratching their head, thinking “What’s this Mark guy talking about??”
Maybe, this idiot should have created a gun avatar to ask the gun just how it is able to cause harm of any kind without a human being pulling the trigger. I guess his book must have flopped and this is his next stop on an inevitable trip to the dustbin for serial liars like him.
Just what AI algorithm was used? No bias in AI? Acosta is just a beta joke.
The drama-queen Jim could ask Nikolas Cruz how that “Promise Program” bullshit kept Cruz free to finally carry out what everyone saw coming.
(Locking up, or committing Cruz was forever off the table.)
He wouldn’t have to resurrect the prick; he’s alive in prison.
(Afterwards, maybe Acosta could ask Deputy Scot Peterson, flaming fan of the “Promise [never to arrest] Program”, why he couldn’t bother himself to enter the school during the shooting.)
Despicable and evil. He might be the first to do this but not the last.
“Jim Acosta sees dead people. ” – Babylon Bee
The irony of Jim Acosta is that while on CNN, his “news” reports were as virtual as this interview. (As in Russian collusion…) So why are we surprised?
Jim Acosta = Rachel Maddow with a mastectomy.
I have a former girl friend who was in some movies. Not big studio productions. Her big hit was “Reform School Girls” –
One Saturday night in 1987 I was looking for blank contract forms for whatever deal I was entering, those worked fine before the internet. I dragged the box of forms into the living room, turned on the TV and it was set to an early cable Tv movie station. My vision was in the box and a movie started and it was the music in the movie that got my attention and I looked up to see all these young gals getting hosed off in a prison shower scene. Or that was later in the movie. My point is, when the lead, Linda, came on screen the first 3-4 times a thought kept coming into my head: “You’re going to know this girl” – Then I settled in and watched the rest of the movie. 6 months later we were living together.
Now, Linda tells me there is an Ai movie with her being made in India, with her involvement and texted me a clip of the movie.
Forthcoming generations may very likely be less able to differentiate Ai from real people and may have issues with real people and themselves as real people,
But I stand on this: Don’t trust Ai unless it tells you it loves you!
Clint Eastwood talking to an empty chair had more verve than a deadhead like Jim Acosta interviewing Ai with Ai preprogrammed speech phrasing unaffected by human stress –
Everyone here is so nice.
Acosta uses AI
to promote gun control
to make crime victims vulnerable
to sow violence division and discord
to gaslight those who are terrorized by the crimes and convince the stupid to support more crime and violence to sow more division and discord
to give his political party more power to steal, kill, and sow mayhem and destruction …
in short
… he used AI to turn a victim of murder into a shill for murder.
If you don’t see what kind of murder-loving scum Acosta is,
… well I can’t help you.
It comes to something when you are being lied to by people that do not even exist.