AI Chatbots Give Voters Wrong Election Information, Studies Find
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Forum AI research found that almost 40 percent of election answers from mainstream chatbots contained at least one factual error, according to a report in Wired.
The errors included Google's Gemini giving a wrong mail-in ballot deadline for Pennsylvania.
NewsGuard found that chatbots cited "pink slime" partisan news sites in nearly 50 percent of midterm election questions. OpenAI's ChatGPT cited them in more than 70 percent of searches, and xAI's Grok in 30 percent.
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AIForum AI research found almost 40 percent of election answers from mainstream chatbots contained at least one factual error, including Google's Gemini giving a wrong mail-in ballot deadline for Pennsylvania. NewsGuard found chatbots cite "pink slime" partisan news sites nearly 50 percent of the time on midterm questions, with OpenAI's ChatGPT citing them in more than 70 percent of searches and xAI's Grok in 30 percent.
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