Argentina | Technology | AI, Political Anarchy and Youth: Fascinating, Very Fascinating, by Maite Vizcarra | Comment

All lovers of technology and dystopian scenes had to finish with an episode of the fascinating English series “Black Mirror”, which can be found on Netflix. The beautifully crafted series presents incredible truths that raise ethical dilemmas around how the use of digital technology affects and creates new ways of using digital power.

In the third episode of the second season, “Waldo Moment”, a cartoon bear competes with the candidates of the United Kingdom’s Labor and Conservative parties. Using the rejection of traditional parties and politically incorrect language, the failed comedian hiding behind this hologram devotes himself to insulting and ridiculing politicians. Thus, the quirky and sly cartoon virtual bear, who gains popularity by commenting on the journalist’s political space, soon finds himself debating with candidates and contesting elections.

Waldo the Bear embodies sensationalism, trivialization of politics, and disdain for conversation as he devotes himself to attacking his rivals. Waldo is the comic incarnation of anti-politics in its purest form: he proposes nothing.

Does this situation sound familiar to you? Of course yes. Today it’s happening in real time in Argentina’s elections, where the electoral contest between two candidates running in the second round has already used artificial intelligence (AI) images to continuously gain followers and create confusion in the process.

According to a recent report by “The New York Times”, the election campaign in Argentina is already using AI, including videos showing the current center-left economy minister – candidate Sergio Massa – as strong, fearless and charismatic. Imagine yourself as a soldier in a war or as Indiana Jones. But the campaign used AI to make opposing candidate Javier Millay — a far-right libertarian economist and TV personality known for his outbursts — unstable, casting him in films like “A Clockwork Orange.”

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This importance that AI is creating in the political debate in Argentine elections puts us back to the growing prevalence of the digital system, and its growing power and decreasing cost demonstrate that it is likely to be a key factor in many today. Democratic elections around the world. Because, like Waldo Bear, these AI-emulated films embody political protest and anarchy that’s about half the world’s fascination lately.

What is happening in Argentina is the parallel discourses of technology, political debate on social networks, characters created by AI and its influence among voters should be of great interest to us. contents.

Not in vain, in Peru, 24.9% of the Peruvian population represents young people (INEI, 2018), which accounts for a third of the national workforce, currently underemployed and without a very stable direction in the face of economic recession. Into that world, an anarchist Waldo is welcome. Be careful with parallel realities, as these aren’t just created in video games.