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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Severin Carrell Scotland editor

ChatGPT and other AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds

Sandwich boards with the Reform, SNP, Labour, Green and Lib Dem candidates on them, lined up outside the polling station
Party campaign posters at a polling station in Edinburgh. A poll found 20% of voters surveyed had used AI chatbots or search tools for information on the parliamentary elections in Scotland and Wales. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA

The Electoral Commission has called for new legal controls over misinformation from AI chatbots, after a thinktank found they had made serious mistakes during the recent Scottish election.

The thinktank Demos said its investigation had found that AI services gave voters misinformation to 34% of the questions it posed, which it said raised worrying questions about the lack of regulation of AI platforms in the UK.

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