In all, WaPo<\/em> took a look at 3,000 AI-generated voting guides, which frequently shared false voting information that usually traced back to other<\/em> AI-generated websites<\/a>. In other words, the AI chatbots are eating their own slop and passing it off as authoritative election information.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Though this is encouraging. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Luckily, the share of users actually querying the chatbots seems to be relatively low. According to a late-October survey<\/a> by the Pew Research Center, just eight percent of US voters say they\u2019ve used an AI chatbot like ChatGPT, Copilot, or Gemini to look up information relevant to the ballot-box.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Did they miscalculate and overhype AI too early, with people dismissing it and moving on? And frankly, anyone with critical thinking distrusts these megacorps so much already, is this why they’re pushing workers to use it? I could see early on it was spyware as they needed to identify you, and their hope is to turn it into the most complete propaganda system ever devised displacing their problematic talking head buffoons that screw up all the time. Will they actually pull it off?<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence\/chatgpt-ai-chatbot-misinformatin-election-voters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n By Joe Wilkins<\/p>\n\n\n\n As crucial elections loom in the United States, AI chatbots are dumping political misinformation onto the populace with astonishing confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s evidence that the problem is widespread. According to recent reporting by the Washington Post<\/em><\/a>, top AI chatbots are giving horribly flawed information to users asking for voting guides on the midterms. For example, when WaPo<\/em> tasked ChatGPT with creating a voter guide for all the races and candidates relevant to a resident of Missouri, the chatbot added a Senate seat that isn\u2019t even up for re-election. A similar test for a resident in Wyoming claimed that local politicians running in municipal elections were running for federal seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In all, WaPo<\/em> took a look at 3,000 AI-generated voting guides, which frequently shared false voting information that usually traced back to other<\/em> AI-generated websites<\/a>. In other words, the AI chatbots are eating their own slop and passing it off as authoritative election information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Overall, the paper found chatbots failed to find which congressional district an exact address was located in a whopping 48 percent of the time, while those that did got it wrong 22 percent of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
A nearly 48-percent error rate.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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