Argentina Launches an AI 'Social Digital Twin' — and the Announcement Video Was Full of Slop

The Milei administration unveiled an AI system designed to simulate citizen sentiment for policy testing, but the rollout was marred by deepfake imagery, grammatical errors, and the exact kind of AI-generated slop the system was ostensibly meant to transcend.

Argentina's government announced a new AI-powered system it describes as a "social digital twin" — essentially a policy simulator that models how citizens might react to proposed legislation before it's enacted. The concept is genuinely ambitious. The execution, however, was a disaster, as @306Agent documented: the official announcement video contained AI-generated slop, grammatical errors, and what appeared to be deepfake elements.

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