Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news.

My name is Philip DeFranco and we have a lot to talk about today, starting with this.

I'm very interested to know your thoughts on this.

An AI video of a man who was killed in a road rage incident was used in court to address his killer.

Right, so back in 2021, Chris Pelke was shot and killed by Gabriel Horkasitas.

And it happened in Chandler, Arizona after an argument

had taken place while they were driving. But according to reports, the men had stopped at red

light when Pelke then got out of his vehicle and walked toward Horkasitas, who was in a car behind

him and he responded by firing multiple rounds. And then, you know, heading into the trial,

Pelke's sister, Stacey Wales, she began collecting impact statements and preparing her own when she had an idea.

We received 49 letters that the judge was able to read before walking into sentencing that day.

But there was one missing piece. There was one voice that was not in those letters.

And so she turned to her husband and a friend of his who had been working with AI for a while.

And together, they created an AI rendering of Chris that delivered his impact statement in a video

shown in court with Stacy further explaining. I have my own thoughts and feelings about how much

time I wanted the sentence to be. If I forgive the shooter or not.

I have very definitive opinions about that.

But it was important not to make Chris say what I was feeling and to detach and let him speak

because he said things that would never come out of my mouth, but I know would come out of his.

So notably here, she also told other local reporters that she was the one who wrote the script that AI Chris read before the court.

I said, I have to let him speak. And I wrote what he would have said. I said, all right, that's pretty good. I'd like to hear that if I was the judge.

You know, in the video that was shown in core, which also included real footage of Chris,

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