Millions Ask AI Who to Vote For, and the Bots Are Just Making Things Up
Asking a glorified autocomplete engine how democracy works is definitely one way to pick the next leader of the free world.
Millions of Americans have apparently decided that researching political platforms is too much work, turning instead to chatbots like ChatGPT as their personal election consultants.
The slight hiccup is that chatbots keep fabricating basic voting rules and nudging people toward specific candidates. They hallucinate polling locations, mangle registration deadlines, and happily dish out biased political advice based on whichever way a user phrases the prompt.
Voters used to get dubious political takes from opinionated relatives at holiday dinners, but now algorithms do it with chilling self-confidence.
Entrusting civic duty to software that occasionally recommends putting glue on pizza seems like a remarkably bold move for representative democracy.
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