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ChatGPT told 2M people to get their election news elsewhere — and rejected 250K deepfakes
Now that the election is over, the dissection can begin. As this is the first election in which AI chatbots played a significant part of voters'
As this is the first election in which AI chatbots played a significant part of voters’ information diets, even approximate numbers are interesting to think about. Millions of people were interested enough, and trusted AI companies enough, to at least ask or give their election knowledge a shot. While OpenAI’s play was the safe one, and Perplexity may have pulled off a risky bet, the AI industry in general is probably ecstatic about the fact that there was no serious gaffe by any of the big brands ( except xAI, of course) and that users considered these chatbots and AI-powered platforms valuable as Election Day resources.
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