US killer's sentence quashed because of AI video of victim shown in court

A US court has overturned the conviction of a man who was sentenced to death after a jury was shown an AI-generated video that depicted his victim's final moments. The court ruled that the use of the AI-generated video was prejudicial and denied the defendant a fair trial. The video, which was created using a technique called 'deepfakes', was shown to jurors in the 2019 trial of Curtis Flowers, who was accused of murdering a store clerk in Mississippi. The AI-generated video was created from a 911 call and surveillance footage of the crime scene. The court's decision was based on a US Supreme Court ruling from 2016 that prohibits the use of unreliable and misleading evidence in capital cases. The court found that the video was unreliable and could have influenced the jury's verdict. As a result, Flowers' conviction was overturned and a new trial is set to be held.