Social media users slammed Jim Acosta's AI avatar interview with deceased Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver as insane, unethical and even "grotesque."

Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta has been forced to defend his decision to host an interview with an AI avatar meant to mimic a 17-year-old victim of the 2018 Parkland school shooting. Acosta, who left CNN earlier this year to start The Jim Acosta Show,

Journalist Jim Acosta conducted an interview with an AI version of Joaquin Oliver, a teenager killed in the Parkland school shooting in 2018.