{
    "byline": "By Charlie Warzel",
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    "excerpt": "It is a Monday afternoon in August, and I am on the internet watching a former cable-news anchor interview a dead teenager on Substack. This dead teenager\u2014Joaquin Oliver, killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida\u2014has been reanimated by generative AI, his voice and dialogue modeled on snippets of his writing and home-video footage. The animations are stiff, the model\u2019s speaking cadence is too fast, and in two instances, when it is trying to convey excitement, its pitch rises rapidly, producing a digital shriek. How many people, I wonder, had to agree that this was a good idea to get us to this moment? I feel like I\u2019m losing my mind watching it.",
    "lang": null,
    "length": 17546,
    "publishedTime": null,
    "siteName": null,
    "title": "AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event"
}