Voters Are Turning to ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude for Election Help — and Getting Wrong Answers
timemagazine · reddit · 2026-09-11
TIME reports that a growing number of voters are using chatbots like Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude to look up election and voting information, but the models' answers aren't always accurate. The piece documents concrete errors in election-related responses and examines how misinformation from AI assistants could directly affect voting decisions in a high-stakes domain.
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