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Hocasitas was sentenced to 10 years in prison after killing Pelky with a gun during a driving dispute at an Arizona intersection in 2021. The Pelkey family used AI technology to recreate the deceased's voice and image, and played the video in the appeals court.
Hocasitas, an American man, shot and killed Pelkey due to road rage. The family of the deceased was found to have made an AI reenactment video inappropriate. The appeals court ruled that Hocasitas' sentence was invalid. The picture shows Pelki's deceased photo. (AP)
Hocasitas, a 55-year-old man from the United States, got into a driving dispute with 37-year-old Christopher Pelkey at an intersection in Arizona in 2021. In anger, he killed the other person with a gun. He was subsequently sentenced to 10 years in prison. However, the Court of Appeal ruled that it was improper for the bereaved family to play the AI-produced video of Pelki's reappearance in court, and declared the verdict invalid and remanded for a new trial.
According to the "BBC" report, Pelky's family used audio recordings, videos, photos and other content to "resurrect" Pelky with AI. In the court in 2025, the dead Pelki said through an AI video that maybe in another world, he could become friends with Hocasitas. It was really a pity that the two met like this that day.
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The trial judge at the time agreed very much with the AI video and said that he liked Pelki's dialogue very much because he could feel Pelki's sincere forgiveness of the other party. However, the above-mentioned Arizona court pointed out that the AI video was only generated through the imagination of Pelkey's family and had clearly crossed the line, so it ruled to remand for a new trial.
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