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AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots
People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system.
TL;DR
- The NTSB temporarily blocked access to its docket system due to AI-generated recreations of deceased pilots' voices.
- The voices were reconstructed from a spectrogram image of the cockpit voice recorder and a public transcript of UPS Flight 2976.
- AI tools like Codex were reportedly used in the reconstruction.
- The NTSB has since restored public access to the docket system but has closed 42 investigations for review, including the UPS Flight 2976 case.