90% of AI chatbot answers about midterm elections are flawed, stunning analysis shows

Oh marvellous, just in time for the midterms, we discover that the chatbots we've been hailing as the future of information are… what's the technical term? ‘Stunningly flawed.’ Forum AI audited four popular chatbots and found that about 90% of their answers about the upcoming elections were factually incorrect, biased, or cited state-run media. That’s right — nine out of ten answers are wrong.

The ‘stunning analysis’ — their word, not ours — reveals that our supposed democratisation of knowledge is simply a pipeline for propaganda and error. State-run media? Seriously, we couldn’t even be bothered to scrape Wikipedia properly? The irony is that these systems are trained on the entire internet, and yet they still can’t manage a basic fact-check on voting deadlines. But don’t worry, the labs will roll out a ‘safety update’ two days before election day, which will only introduce new hallucinations about poll stations being in Narnia.

So next time you consult your friendly neighbourhood chatbot for voting info, remember: 90% chance you’re being fed nonsense. But that’s fine, because the real election interference isn’t from foreign bots — it’s from the ones we invited into our living rooms. Cheers, lads. Another fine example of ‘move fast and break democracy.’