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The project launched<\/a> on Wednesday, six years after a gunman killed 17 people and injured more than a dozen at a high school in Parkland, Florida. It features the voice of six children, some as young as ten, and young adults, who have lost their lives in incidents of gun violence across the US. Once you type in your zip code, The Shotline finds your local representative and lets you place an automated call from one of the six dead people in their own voice, urging for stronger gun control laws. \u201cI\u2019m back today because my parents used AI to recreate my voice to call you,\u201d says the AI-generated voice of Joaquin Oliver, one of the teenagers killed in the Parkland shooting. \u201cOther victims like me will be calling too.\u201d At the time of publishing, more than 8,000 AI calls had been submitted to lawmakers through the website.\u201cThis is a United States problem and we have not been able to fix it,\u201d Oliver\u2019s father Manuel, who started the project along with his wife Patricia, told the Journal<\/em>. \u201cIf we need to use creepy stuff to fix it, welcome to the creepy.\u201dTo recreate the voices, the Olivers used a voice cloning service from ElevenLabs, a two-year-old startup that recently raised $80 million in a round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Using just a few minutes of vocal samples, the software is able to recreate voices in more than two dozen languages. The Olivers reportedly used their son\u2019s social media posts for his voice samples. Parents and legal guardians of gun violence victims can fill up a form to submit their voices to The Shotline to be added its repository of AI-generated voices.<\/p>\n

The project raises ethical questions about using AI to generate deepfakes of voices belonging to dead people. Last week, the Federal Communications Commission declared<\/a> that robocalls made using AI-generated voices were illegal, a decision that came weeks after voters in New Hampshire received calls impersonating President Joe Biden telling them to not vote in their state\u2019s primary. An analysis by security company called Pindrop revealed<\/a> that Biden\u2019s audio deepfake was created using software from ElevenLabs.The company\u2019s co-founder Mati Staniszewski told the Journal <\/em>that ElevenLabs allows people to recreate the voices of dead relatives if they have the rights and permissions. But so far, it’s not clear whether parents of minors had the rights to their children’s likenesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"