The avatar of presidential candidate Yoon Seok-yeol, ‘AI Yoon Seok-yeol’, unveiled by the National Power of the People’s National Election Countermeasures Committee on the 6th. People’s Power YouTube Capture
‘A presidential candidate’s avatar gives a speech, and an artificial intelligence (AI) spokesperson gives a comment.’
The novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) is changing the landscape of the presidential election. This is because the presidential candidates of the ruling and opposition parties are using various digital technologies to overcome the limitations of non-face-to-face elections. It also contains calculations to preempt the image of the ‘future president’ who leads the 4th industrial revolution and changes in science and technology.
‘AI Yoon Seok-yeol’ who doesn’t do anything
Yoon Seok-yeol, a presidential candidate for the Power of the People, is more active in using AI technology. At the inauguration ceremony of the Election Countermeasures Committee on the 6th, ‘AI Yoon Seok-yeol’, made for the first time in the political world, was introduced. Based on AI deep learning (machine learning) technology, it is a virtual avatar created by synthesizing Yoon’s video and voice. It was planned by Lee Jun-seok, the representative of People’s Power, who is the head of the public relations and media division of the election committee, to make the digital election campaign effective.
‘AI Yoon Seok-yeol’ resembles Candidate Yoon, but he does not resemble the habit of inducing unfavorable characters such as ‘Dorridor’ and ‘Jeongbeol’. “The more data the AI learns, the more similar it becomes to the target, because the amount of learning is still insufficient,” explains Candidate Yoon. It is said that AI Yun Seok-yeol learned about 3,000 words.
The advantage of ‘AI Yoon Seok-yeol’ is that it can send out any message with Yoon’s voice. Instead of the one-body candidate Yoon, you can campaign or give congratulatory speeches at various events.
The People’s Power also started the Kraken program to counter manipulation of comments from the 14th of last month. In addition, it was decided to collect public opinion necessary for writing the election pledge through ‘Namoo Wiki’, an online citizen participation encyclopedia.
Democratic Party presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung is preparing for a meeting using the online conference program ‘Zoom’ at a hotel in Yeongam-gun, Jeollanam-do in July. yunhap news
Jaemyung Lee’s ‘chatbot’ created by supporters
Democratic Party presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung set up an election camp in the metaverse (three-dimensional virtual world) during the internal presidential election and used it as a window to communicate with young people. Supporters of Lee Jae-myung introduced the ‘Lee Jae-myung chatbot’ (a conversational robot) using AI technology. If you ask a question about this candidate, you will receive an answer by text message.
For example, if you ask a question, ‘Who is to blame for the suspicion of preferential treatment in Daejang-dong?’, the chatbot answers. “It is the people’s strength that blocked the promotion of public development in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, and it is the people’s strength that received bribes.
The Democratic Party’s election committee’s youth committee showed a video of ‘AI Lee Jae-myung’ using deepfake technology on the YouTube channel ‘Detective Lee Jae-myung’. It is a video produced as if Lee was speaking directly from the text entered by users.
An official from the Democratic Party’s election campaign said, “Lee’s ability to respond quickly to changes can be demonstrated in the digital election campaign as well. did.
Kim Dong-yeon (far right), the presidential candidate of New Wave, introduces the ‘AI spokesperson’ AD at the National Assembly on the 7th. By Oh Dae-geun
There is also an ‘AI spokesperson’, but… Fear of spreading fake messages
The number of cases in which digital technology is used as a ‘hidden helper’ in the election campaign is expected to increase. New Wave presidential candidate Kim Dong-yeon also introduced AI spokesperson ‘AD’ as the first recruit on the 7th. While candidate Kim was contemplating ways to reduce election costs, he hired an AI spokesperson developed by a new startup. ‘AD’ will write a commentary on various political issues and convey Kim’s position. Justice Party presidential candidate Shim Sang-jung and People’s Party presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo also said, “We will announce a program using AI technology soon.”
There are also concerns that digital technology could be abused in elections. It is argued that the message of the presidential candidate can be manipulated with various deepfake (photo and video synthesis) videos. In the 2017 US presidential election, a fake video of former President Barack Obama shouting “Trump is trash” was controversial.
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