A SuperPAC aimed at putting Miami Mayor Francis Suarez behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office rolled out an A.I. chatbot version of the mayor.
Saying “Conservative Miami Mayor Francis Suarez makes history as the first American presidential candidate to have a namesake interactive AI chatbot,” SOS America claims the chatbot represents “the kind of innovation we need.”
"Hi, I'm AI Francis Suarez."
— SOS America (@sosamericapac) July 5, 2023
Conservative Miami Mayor Francis Suarez makes history as the first American presidential candidate to have a namesake interactive AI chatbot: https://t.co/rHoy74TrY6
This is the innovative leadership America needs. #Suarez2024 #AISuarez
The link isn’t surprising: Suarez has successfully pushed Miami as a new wave technology hub, and he has seen tech company investment in his city surge.
But the bot is also a risk — like all innovation — given that A.I. is still unsteady on its feet, and is known to “hallucinate” and make things up.
{Note: Suarez has evidently calculated that since self-serving fictions are abundantly issued by all the other presidential candidates, how much harm could a lying robot also named Francis Suarez really do?]
Suarez can indeed claim he was the first candidate with an eponymous bot, and he may be able to claim — for a while anyway — that he was also last.
Based on the early feedback, the computer-generated mayor is far less popular than the flesh and blood version.
Wow this is garbage!
— piedam piedam (@themattmager) July 5, 2023
“Wow this is garbage!” writes one commenter. “A perfect argument against AI,” says another.
Those comments are politically tinged, but the tech execution does look choppy — ask any kid whose Roblox glitches if he’s seen something like this before.
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