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AI Models Reportedly Found to Provide Misinformation on Election Processes in Spanish

October 30, 2024

An analysis reportedly found that multiple AI models provided inaccurate responses to election-related questions, with 52% of Spanish-language answers and 43% of English-language answers containing misinformation or omissions. Errors included misidentifying voting processes and providing information about foreign elections.
Alleged deployer
anthropic, google, meta, openai, mistral
Alleged developer
anthropic, google, meta, openai, mistral
Alleged harmed parties
spanish-speakers, spanish-speaking-american-voters, u.s.-electorate, democracy, electoral-integrity

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/859

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