Integrating AI in Recreating Iconic Personalities

Deepfake Technology

OpenAIAPI

Elevenlabs

Project Overview

Artificial Intelligence is transforming how we understand and engage with the world, and history is no exception. This project explores the intersection of AI technologies—language modeling, voice synthesis, and animation—to create an interactive digital version of President John F. Kennedy.

Our team set out to prototype what it might look like to hold a conversation with a historic figure. We chose JFK due to the extensive archive of audio, video, and writings available, as well as his cultural familiarity. The goal was to create a believable and expressive simulation that evokes not just how JFK sounded, but how he thought and interacted.

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Technical Stack & Implementation

OpenAI Integration for Personality Emulation

At the heart of the project was a custom OpenAI assistant. I used JFK’s public speeches, interviews, letters, and secondary sources (biographies, news coverage, etc.) to shape the assistant’s tone, diction, and ideological leanings. Responses were prompted to stay grounded in this curated corpus to reduce hallucination and better emulate historical plausibility.

Voice Synthesis with ElevenLabs

To add auditory realism, we integrated ElevenLabs’ voice synthesis platform. Using archival audio, we constructed a vocal