As Americans go to the polls today, many will have had their decision about who to vote for informed by an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot.
Around 50 percent of recently surveyed US adults have at one time used an AI chatbot, and 8 percent say they have used these tools ahead of the midterms to find information on candidates and policies, according to Pew Research.
But a lot of information from these chatbots is out of date and has been hallucinated or sourced from partisan websites.
Even supposedly non-partisan chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini have been found wanting when it comes to questions about the midterms.
