GoKawiilResearch finds AI chatbots giving inaccurate midterm election information
Pew Research found about 8% of surveyed US adults used AI chatbots to research candidates and policies ahead of the midterms. Testing by Forum AI found nearly 40% of chatbot answers on election topics contained factual errors, including Google's Gemini citing a wrong ballot deadline and Claude confusing a congressman with another person of the same name. NewsGuard separately found chatbots citing so-called 'pink slime' partisan sites nearly half the time when answering election-related questions.
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The findings suggest voters relying on chatbots for election information risk being misled by outdated, hallucinated, or partisan-sourced answers at a moment when accurate information matters most. The reliance on low-quality 'pink slime' sites as source material points to a broader weakness in how AI models gather and verify information on fast-moving political topics. Companies' muted responses to the research may reflect the difficulty of fixing this problem before future elections.
- About 8% of surveyed adults used AI chatbots for midterm election research, per Pew.
- Nearly 40% of chatbot election answers contained factual errors, according to Forum AI testing.
- Chatbots cited partisan 'pink slime' sites in almost half of election-related answers, per NewsGuard.
Source: wired.com — David Gilbert, 2026-11-03
Published there as: “Here's Why You Shouldn't Use AI to Vote”
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