AI recreates school shooting victims’ voices to request action from politicians. In an attempt to reach politicians in new ways, activists are using AI technology to replicate the voices of six people who died as a result of firearms in a phone campaign known as the Shotline.
to directly appeal to lawmakers, mentioning Haken Oliver, a 17-year-old who was killed in the Parkland hallway outside his classroom.
AI generated the voice of Joaquin Oliver “It’s been 6 years and you’ve done nothing, not a thing to stop all the shootings that have continued to happen since, the thing is I died that day in Parkland my body destroyed by a weapon of War, I’m back today because my parents used AI to recreate my voice to call you, other victims like me will be calling too again and again to demand action.”
it’s me it’s Guac, four years ago hen’s parents crafted a video of him to try to change young minds on gun violence.
they’ve also staged D whin, whose father has been arrested twice, it is not conventional campaigning but the US convention has done little to Halt gun violence.
4News earlier reported that Hen’s mother Patricia and asked her how it felt to hear her son’s voice recreated by AI for this campaign.
Patricia Oliver, the mother of the school shooting victim, disclosed that we were just supervising the process listening to the voices over and over again, so when we got the final draft of the voice, it was very impactful, it was working, so I can send you a video of what talking and you see what he’s saying today is incredible exact the same voice.
Compared to the Past, how did it feel to hear Rim’s voice now?
yeah, that is a mixed feeling that created in me, because you know that this is an illusion you know that this is not true, but technology makes you feel for a moment that it could be true, it’s hard, you want it to be real but it’s not.
However difficult it is for you and traumatic it is for you, you want lawmakers in Capitol Hill and you’re there in Washington DC right now, you want them to hear his voice as if it were real today.
Mrs. Patricia said yes, I think it will, you know why, because the lawmakers, they have their staffers and they are the ones who receive the phone calls, they receive phone calls every day from regular seasons, for Regular constituents, this time when the staffer grabbed the phone and listen to this voice from Wath, for example, it will bring a different impression, so it may be, he will be Feeling uncomfortable, and that feeling on being uncomfortable will make him move forward and send it and present it to the representative, the feeling of being not comfortable with that phone call with that message would make something happen that’s my hope.
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You launched this campaign six years to the day after your son was killed in Parkland and on that very same day there was another shooting in Kansas City how were you feeling when you heard that news?
it feels very frustrating of course, is unbelievable and most of the kids that were there, were just so excited to receive their favorite team, they got injured because in that state, no loss follows the gun protection, they gun protection from people like what he did yesterday.
in the message that you’ve generated from Wen to the lawmakers, he says to them you’ve had six years since my death and you’ve and you’ve done nothing now you want assault weapons to be banned do you feel like you’re any closer to achieving that.
Oliver explained that she doesn’t think that we are closer to achieving that, to be honest, but the fact that I’m not sure I know that this not going to be any time closer that this is going, I’m not going to stop fighting, changes in the world, in history takes time, and this country has a culture of guns, so it’s a difficult issue to fight, but we are here to teach and to give, the example of what we have to get done.
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