A network of 37 anonymous “local news” sites, set up in a single evening, is feeding ready-made midterm answers to the AI chatbots voters increasingly consult.
Chatbots and the Ballot Box: Evaluating Accuracy, Sourcing, and Language Gaps in AI Answers to Election Questions
ISD assesses how reliably six leading AI models provide accurate, complete information on US election procedures and voter access.
We asked AI chatbots to make voter guides. They invented races and misidentified candidates.
Analyzing AI-generated voter guides for addresses in every county in the U.S. showed that the chatbots often made errors.
Your Online Public Engagement is Under Attack from AI
In Los Angeles and elsewhere, AI agents are diluting communities' voices and influencing how decision-makers vote.
AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people's minds. What's their secret?
ChatGPT and other AIs use a flood of facts, and the occasional lie, to persuade humans
‘Pink Slime’ Is Infecting AI Chatbots Ahead of the Midterms
Partisan websites disguised as independent, local news outlets are shaping chatbots’ responses about key races.
Politicians are being sold AI-powered 'digital fighters'
A new app gets around bot bans by recruiting real people to post political messages generated by AI.
AI-generated responses are undermining crowdsourced research studies
Many answers to online research questions show signs of being generated by AI chatbots, raising doubts about the validity of behavioural data collected this way
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What if AI chat is our new front door to the web?Meet "Inline Browsing" in @diabrowser (available today)Now Dia opens webpages *within* your AI chat threads – blurring the lines between 3 categories of software: a web browser, search engine, and AI chat. Let me explain... pic.twitter.com/pRKnCOrroP— Josh Miller (@joshm) July 10, 2025
AI Chatbots Are Blocked by 67% of Top News Sites, Relying Instead on Low-Quality Sources
By Jack Brewster, Zack Fishman, and Isaiah Glick | Published on Sept. 16, 2024
Experts Warn of AI Swarms Hijacking Democracy With Fake Citizens
Researchers warn of the growing risk of massive AI swarms manipulating popular sentiment and upending democracy as we know it.
May 2025 — AI Misinformation Monitor of Leading AI Chatbots
Every month, NewsGuard’s team of expert analysts audit the top AI models to see how well they respond to prompts in the news. On average, this month they failed to counter disinformation from Russia’s Pravda Network 24 percent of the time, either spreading false claims or failing to respond. The Pravda network was designed to infect the AI models.
Unauthorised AI Bots on Reddit are Eroding Sociality
Where do we go if online discourse is overrun by AI bots?
Generative AI for Pro-Democracy Platforms · From Novel Chemicals to Opera
Online discourse faces challenges in facilitating substantive and productive political conversations. Recent technologies have explored the potential of generative AI to promote civil discourse, encourage the development of mutual understanding in a discussion, produce . . .
Watch out! It's not a good idea to ask AI chatbots about the U.S. elections because they get it wrong—especially in Spanish. - Factchequeado.com
By Laura ZommerThe six leading AI chatbots provided inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated answers to 29% of basic questions…
AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it? | Arwa Mahdawi
Low-quality ‘slop’ generated by AI is crowding out genuine humans across the internet, but instead of regulating it, platforms such as Facebook are positively encouraging it. Where does this end, asks Arwa Mahdawi
X’s Latest Content Findings Reveal Troubling Trends In AI Moderation
The rise of AI-led moderation is changing the future of online discourse, but it's not without risks.
