And in any case, a deep-pocketed campaign spender deploying a lifeless deepfake of a presidential candidate to interface with citizens feels deeply dystopian — not to mention a strange, cheap, and arguably lazy replacement for the real deal.Like other AI deepfakes, the bot's attempt at realism, from its tinny voice to its waxy expression, is just inhuman enough to be deeply unsettling.
On top of that, it's unclear why it even needs to exist. All of its answers are pre-recorded, and the AI bot simply chooses which of those pre-recorded prompts best suits the query. And more often than not, the provided responses don't even do that. Case in point, when asked about hot-button conservative topics like access to abortion, for example, the bot replied with scripted monologues. But when asked about topics like environmental policy, healthcare, and Russia's ongoing war on Ukraine, AI Suarez launches into an unrelated spiel about Joe Biden's failures, protecting police officers, and China.