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The voices of kids killed in school shootings are being recreated by AI to lobby elected officials for gun control.

The WSJ’s Joanna Stern reports on The Shotline, which uses AI from a company called ElevenLabs to recreate the voices of kids murdered in school shootings and have them call elected officials. Take some time with this one; there are infinite layers here.

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