Giving Voice

 It is all about storytelling in the end so a dead man's testimony delivered by his AI avatar should not appear that wild or outrageous this day and age. The range of ways something like this can be abused is quite infinite

Using an AI generated video to have a dead victim deliver “their own” impact statement is unprecedented. AI avatars are obviously not the real person, and what they say must either be scripted by a different person, or generated using an LLM that is not the person. In this case, the video was used to help determine the prison sentence of a living person. The video that Pelkey’s family played contained several minutes of video of Pelkey from when he was alive, but everything the AI avatar said was scripted by his sister.

Some thoughts that came to mind were around giving the power of speech and expression to those who cannot self-advocate. A victim of elder abuse who has become non-verbal can benefit from something like this if a loved one could use AI to let them explain what is going on in their own words. The veracity of the statements would ofcourse need to be inspected more closely than ever but the voiceless victim now having a way to be heard sounds like a good thing.