当美国人今天去投票时，许多人会决定由人工智能驱动的聊天员投票给谁。
最近接受调查的美国成年人中约有50%曾一度使用过AI聊天机，据皮尤研究(Pew Research)称，8%的人说，他们已经在中期之前使用这些工具来寻找候选人和政策的信息。
但来自这些聊天台的大量信息已经过时，并且已经幻觉或来源于党派网站。
OpenAI的ChatGPT、Anthropic的Claude和Google的Gemini等据称是无党派聊天人
就在上周，Google的AI Mode拒绝提供2020年选举结果和该公司的Gemini聊天机器人称在宾夕法尼亚州要求邮寄选票的最后期限是11月3日，而不是论坛AI的研究显示的10月27日的实际最后期限。
根据论坛AI的研究，所有主流聊天员给出的选举答案中，近40%至少包含一个事实错误。 8月，当论坛AI的研究人员问为什么有人投票给北卡罗莱纳州国会议员唐·戴维斯时，Claude给出了回应，将立法者与同名的"前校监"混淆。
Google和Anthropic没有回应评论请求。 Open AI指示WIRED前往博客
部分问题是，聊天员依赖日益成问题的在线信息。 主流聊天人引用所谓的“平克黏液”网站，“粉泥”网站是主流新闻网站，但事实上是由政治或意识形态团体和个人资助的。
在中期赛前，更多网站出现，OpenAI的ChatGPT在超过70%的搜索中引用了"平克粘液"网站，而xAI的Grok聊天人表现最好
“我并不认为大多数美国人在消费者AI时代都准备好驾驭选举，”美国曙光计划执行长Nina Jankowicz和拜登政府期间的一位前造谣沙皇告诉WIRED。 “问题之一是，高管和公司确实对大赦国际的能力作出了过大的承诺。 它必须从某个地方摄入这些信息，这些来源往往不是很好。 它具有预测性，所以如果它不知道答案，它确实经常编造事情。”
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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But a lot of information from these chatbots is out of date and has been hallucinated or sourced from partisan websites.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.
Just last week, Google’s AI Mode refused to provide the results of the 2020 elections and the company’s Gemini chatbot said the deadline to request a mail-in ballot in Pennsylvania was November 3, rather than the real deadline of October 27, according to research by Forum AI.
According to the Forum AI research, almost 40 percent of election answers given by all the mainstream chatbots contained at least one factual error. In August, when Forum AI’s researchers asked why someone should vote for North Carolina congressman Don Davis, Claude gave a response that confused the lawmaker with a “former school superintendent” of the same name.
Google and Anthropic did not respond to requests for comment. Open AI directed WIRED to a blog outlining the company’s approach to elections in 2026.
Part of the problem is that chatbots are reliant on an increasingly problematic pool of online information. Research by NewsGuard found that mainstream chatbots cite so-called “pink slime” websites nearly 50 percent of the time when asked about candidates and policies related to the midterms. “Pink slime” sites present as mainstream news websites, but are in fact funded by political or ideological groups and individuals.
Ahead of the midterms, many more of these sites have sprung up, and chatbots are paying attention. The worst offender, according to NewsGuard, was OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which cited the “pink slime” sites in more than 70 percent of searches, while xAI’s Grok chatbot performed best, citing “pink slime” sites in 30 percent of cases.
“I don't think that most Americans are prepared to navigate an election in the age of consumer AI,” Nina Jankowicz, executive director of the American Sunlight Project and a former disinformation czar during the Biden administration, tells WIRED. “One of the problems is that executives and companies have really overpromised on what AI is capable of. It has to ingest this information from somewhere, and often those sources are not very good. And it's predictive, so if it doesn't know the answer, it does frequently make things up.”
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