Independent journalist Jim Acosta faced a torrent of online criticism Wednesday after he posted an "interview" conducted with an AI avatar of a US school shooting victim."It was more of a bizarre AI demonstration than an interview,

Joaquin Oliver was just 17 when he was killed by a gunman who opened fire at his school in 2018. His father wants the AI avatar of his son to contribute to the conversation about gun control.

Jim Acosta, the former CNN chief White House correspondent who now hosts an independent show on YouTube, has published an interview with an AI-generated avatar of Joaquin Oliver, who died at age 17 in the Parkland school shooting in 2018.