"Stacey Wales gripped the lectern, choking back tears as she asked the judge to give the man who shot and killed her brother the maximum possible sentence for manslaughter.
"What appeared next stunned those in the Phoenix courtroom last week: An AI-generated video with a likeness of her brother, Christopher Pelkey, told the shooter he was forgiven.
"The judge said he loved and appreciated the video, then sentenced the shooter to 10.5 years in prison — the maximum sentence and more than what prosecutors sought. Within hours of the hearing on May 1, the defendant’s lawyer filed a notice of appeal."
It appears that it did not influence the judge--at least the way the defense hoped--but I think the judge should not have even allowed it to be shown.
The article examines many other more troubling uses of AI and virtual reality in the courtroom.
I have become increasingly concerned about the destructive effects of insufficiently labeled AI output. It can be quite a powerful tool. Recently, I asked chapGPT how to export all the text in Word documents in a particular directory and subdirectories as text. It very quickly gave me a VisualBasic program to do this.
It can be very entertaining. I linked a while back to some 1950s retro futuristic AI creations that captured the feel right down to the knockout beauties that were exactly right as 1950s pre-feminist women. (My wife found them disturbing for that reason.) If Hollyweird goes away, this is a virtue.
The downside in academia is that really effective fraud gets easier. This is both a problem because of hallucinations producing crap, and because students do not learn to research and write. At some point, they may need to know how.
The Forbin Project and SkyNet increasingly seem plausible. Idiots in government (but I repeat myself) might be tempted to put AI in charge of weapon systems at a dangerous scale. It is already being used for support actions. As long as a human understands the limitations of the tool and makes final "kill" decisions, this may be okay. But no missile launch should ever be AI controlled.
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