It still amazes me how little attention those working at the intersection of AI and democracy pay to the role of generative AI in collective action. Here is a case from Mexico that is worth looking at. Families searching for disappeared relatives are using generative AI to animate photos and reconstruct voices of the missing, turning them into short videos that circulate on social media and extend the reach of their search efforts (link to articles about it in the comments).
I find this case compelling because it shows how technologies are appropriated in ways that often sit far from what those working on participatory and deliberative democracy tend to anticipate. If anyone here has come across similar cases of generative AI being used in unexpected ways for civic purposes, I would be very interested. It would be particularly useful for a book chapter I am currently working on.