Get ready for our first AI election

My wife and I used to live in Argentina.

We spent most of our time in Cafayate, a little wine town in Salta Province, up north. And we drank our fair share of Malbec and Salta beer while there. Fun times.

Our good friends still live in Argentina (they own Bad Brothers winery, which makes some of the highest-altitude vino in the world), so we keep up with what’s going on there.

Argentina just held the first-ever “AI election.”

The candidates and their supporters used freely available AI tech to generate all kinds of images and videos.

Javier Milei (the winner, and a diehard libertarian) created images of his rival Sergio Massa as a Chinese communist leader:

Funny story: When asked about a deal with China, Milei said: “We don’t make pacts with communists.” My kind of guy.

I’m telling you this because the 2024 US presidential election is going to be our first AI election. Expect things to get WILD.

There’ll be fake videos of both candidates doing and saying things they did not do or say. And 99.5% of people won’t know the difference.

Trump or Biden will call you on the phone. Except it will be an AI robot that sounds exactly like them.

AI tools will create personalized political ads, tailor-made just for you.

Soon, you won’t be able to believe anything you see online.

This is a big problem. But as is usually the case, technology will solve it.

Without getting into the weeds… blockchain (the tech behind crypto) is the answer.

It allows you to prove authenticity in the digital world, which will thwart scammers.

Fast-forward a few years, and we’ll say, “If it’s not on the blockchain, it’s not real.”

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