Argentina's election has quickly become a testing ground for A.I. in campaigns, with the two candidates and their supporters employing the technology to doctor existing images and videos and create others from scratch. A.I. has made candidates say things they did not, and put them in famous movies and memes. It has created campaign posters, and triggered debates over whether real videos are actually real.
A.I.'s prominent role in Argentina's campaign and the political debate it has set off underscore the technology's growing prevalence and show that, with its expanding power and falling cost, it is now likely to be a factor in many democratic elections around the globe.