AI Victim Impact Statements Are Here, and They Are Just as Disastrous as You’d Expect

AI Victim Impact Statements Are Here, and They Are Just as Disastrous as You’d Expect

“In another life, we probably could have been friends. I believe in forgiveness and a God who forgives. I still do.” If you wanted to design the perfect magnanimous and sympathetic victim of a crime, you could do a lot worse than building around a quote like this. However, this statement was not made by an actual person, but by an AI simulacrum of a manslaughter victim. In a first for a U.S. legal proceeding, an AI-generated victim impact statem…