NPR: About One in Five Voters Ask Chatbots About the Election
NPR reports that voters are using chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini to compare candidates and check viral claims, and a September survey found about one in five voters consult them for election news.
Why it matters
A Johns Hopkins researcher warns that these tools tend to agree with whatever you already lean toward. They can also hallucinate, which means producing false or made-up answers. That caution carries over to any research you hand a chatbot, whether it's your ballot or a business question.
Your moveBefore trusting a chatbot's answer, keep your own preferences out of the prompt and ask for statements from candidates' official sites. Then open those sites yourself and confirm what it told you.
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