Article by Mexico News Daily: “Turning to artificial intelligence to keep Mexico’s more than 125,000 missing people from being forgotten, a collective in the state of Jalisco has been crafting “living” videos of the missing that talk to the public.
In the state with the highest number of missing persons, the Luz de Esperanza Collective creates Fichas Vivas de Búsqueda, or Living Search Cards — short AI-generated videos that animate photos and recreate the voices of the disappeared for social media.
The clips circulate online, seeking to cut through the noise and force viewers to confront a national human rights crisis.
Using image, facial animation and speech synthesis tools, families script what their relatives would say and work with technologists to produce videos that resemble digital search posters — with a “photo” of the missing person actually “speaking.”
In one 110-second video, the photo of the missing person declares, “I am Carlos Maximiliano Romera Meza. I was 18 years old when I disappeared, and I want to tell you my story.”..(More)”.
