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  • Family uses AI to create video for deadly Chandler road rage victim's own impact statement

    05/10/2025 1:22:01 PM PDT · by xxqqzz · 6 replies
    ABC 15 ^ | May 5, 2025 | Jordan Bontke , Ashley Loose
    Christopher Pelkey was killed in a road rage incident in Chandler in 2021, but last month, artificial intelligence brought him back to life during his killer’s sentencing hearing. It was the first time in Arizona judicial history — and possibly nationwide — that AI has been used to create a deceased victim’s own impact statement. The video player is currently playing an ad. Pelkey’s sister and brother-in-law used the technology to recreate his image and voice likeness to “talk” to the courtroom about his life and the day he met Gabriel Paul Horcasitas, who shot him during a confrontation near...
  • After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court

    05/07/2025 4:45:27 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 13 replies
    NPR ^ | May 7, 2025 | Juliana Kim
    For two years, Stacey Wales kept a running list of everything she would say at the sentencing hearing for the man who killed her brother in a road rage incident in Chandler, Ariz. But when she finally sat down to write her statement, Wales was stuck. She struggled to find the right words, but one voice was clear: her brother's. "I couldn't help hear his voice in my head of what he would say," Wales told NPR. That's when the idea came to her: to use artificial intelligence to generate a video of how her late brother, Christopher Pelkey, would...