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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Election voting advice from AI chatbots ‘inaccurate and unreliable’

A woman inserts her polling card into one of a series of boxes set out in the polling station, as other people walk towards her to cast their own votes
A polling station in Budapest during Hungary’s elections in April, on which the research was based. Photograph: Dénes Erdős/AP

AI chatbots provide inaccurate, inconsistent and unreliable guidance to voters asking which party they should back, a study suggests, often recommending the wrong party, not mentioning the right one, or listing parties not even running.

“The results raise serious concerns about the reliability of general-purpose AI systems in electoral contexts,” the study, published by the civil liberties group Liberties and based on research during this year’s Hungarian parliamentary elections, concluded.

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