Between now and the 2024 presidential election, AI is going to make the political cycle all the more unpleasant. You’ve probably heard about the AI misinformation problem, but the technology presents another issue for voters that’s far more surreal. Over the next year, politicians will flood the world with robot duplicates of themselves, delivering messages they’ve never actually said, in languages they don’t speak, and in ways we’ve only imagined in our most boring dystopian nightmares.
Similar videos of Modi singing songs in South Indian languages including Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada are going viral across the internet, though the politician only speaks Gujarati and Hindi. A political campaign is an effort to reach as many people as possible before voters head to the ballot box; the more personalized, the better. Candidates are often limited to shaking hands at local diners and sending out armies of volunteers to knock on doors.