In the final weeks of campaigning, Argentine President-elect Javier Milei published a fabricated image depicting his Peronist rival Sergio Massa as an old-fashioned communist in military garb, his hand raised aloft in salute. The apparently AI-generated image drew some 3 million views when Milei posted it on a social media account, highlighting how the rival campaign teams used artificial intelligence technology to catch voters' attention in a bid to sway the race. "There were troubling signs of AI use" in the election, said Darrell West, a senior fellow at the Center for Technology Innovation at the Washington-based Brookings Institution.

In 2018, while the Argentine Congress was hotly debating whether to decriminalize abortion, the Ministry of Early Childhood in the northern province of Salta and the American tech giant Microsoft presented an algorithmic system to predict teenage pregnancy. They called it the Technology Platform for Social Intervention. Diego Jemio is a journalist, educator, and podcaster. He currently writes for the Clarín newspaper (Buenos Aires), Vértice (Mexico), and other media. He is the creator of the podcast Epistolar.