If the idea of getting a phone call from a teenager who was killed in a mass shooting makes you uncomfortable, Patricia Oliver says that's the point.Manuel and Patricia Oliver, the parents of Parkland, Fla., shooting victim Joaquin Oliver, are launching a campaign where re-created voices of gun violence victims will call federal lawmakers. If the idea of getting a phone call from a teenager who was killed in a mass shooting makes you uncomfortable, Patricia Oliver says that's the point.
In Joaquin's message, an AI voice says: "Six years ago, I was a senior at Parkland. Many students and teachers were murdered on Valentine's Day that year by a person using an AR 15. But you don't care. You never did. It's been six years, and you've done nothing. Not a thing to stop all the shootings that have continued to happen since.
Brett Cross, uncle of Uvalde shooting victim Uziyah Garcia, says he's participating in the AI campaign to stop other children from being killed in shootings. To create the recordings, PR company MullenLowe and AI firm Edisen fed real audio recordings of the victims to the ElevenLabs generative voice AI platform.
"They put words in a dead kid's mouth. If my father did this to me, I would haunt him for the rest of his life," one wrote on YouTube.