Children killed by gun violence in the US brought back to life with AI!

In the US, the voices of children who lost their lives in armed attacks are being recreated using artificial intelligence to address senators. Through an application called The Shotline, these voices are used in automated calls to urge senators to bring gun control under regulation.

In this system, the voices of six victims, ranging from young adults to 10-year-olds, are recreated using artificial intelligence technology. Users can enter their zip codes to have their representatives called. In the message created from the voice of Joaquin, the son of the project's architects Manuel and Patricia Oliver, who lost his life in an attack in 2018, a demand is made for the control of individual gun ownership.

It is stated that these voices were recreated using the voice cloning technology of a company called ElevenLabs. The artificial intelligence developed by ElevenLabs can generate speech in 12 languages using just a few minutes of audio recording. However, this work also brings with it certain ethical debates.

Automated calls using artificial intelligence are already prohibited. However, ElevenLabs allows people to clone the voices of their deceased relatives in accordance with their permissions and rights. In this case, issues such as whether families have the right to their children's voices are also sparking controversy.

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