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    Because a judge allowing anyone to represent their views in court as though those views belong to someone else is a textbook “bad idea.” It is a misrepresentation of the truth.

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      So it would’ve been equally bad if instead of a video, she’d just read a statement she’d written in his voice? Something along the lines of:

      My brother isn’t here to speak for himself, but if he was, he’d say blah blah blah

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        Not at all, because it would have been her making claims about what she believes her brother would have said, and not a simulacrum of her brother speaking her words with his voice.

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          But that’s what she did. She was upfront about the fact that it was an AI video reciting a script that she’d written.

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            You can say that all you want, but when your brain is presented with a video of a person, using that person’s voice, you’re going to take what’s being said as being from that person in the video.

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              True, many people would have that problem, which is why the context in which the video was shown was acceptable; it was after the verdict had been given.

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                Such a thing should not impact sentencing, either. The judge allowed it, the judge was swayed by it, it impacted sentencing. This is wrong.