US voters use AI chatbots to help decide their ballots
What happened
On October 5, Hacker News featured a report that some US voters are using chatbots such as ChatGPT to research midterm candidates and even to help decide who to vote for. Among the voters NPR interviewed, one used Gemini to build a candidate comparison table, one used Claude to build a Ballot Lookup site, and others asked chatbots about local races with little news coverage. Researcher Rafael Batista warned that a chatbot's agreeableness can reinforce a user's existing political leanings, and said he has seen no evidence that cross-checking answers with another model works.
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- Hacker News front pagePeople are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms
部分美国选民正在用 ChatGPT 等 AI 聊天机器人研究中期选举候选人，甚至辅助决定投给谁。NPR 采访的选民用 Gemini 制作候选人比较表、用 Claude 构建 Ballot Lookup 网站，也用聊天机器人查询新闻报道较少的地方选举。研究者 Rafael Batista 提醒，聊天机器人的迎合性可能强化用户既有政治倾向，用另一个模型交叉核查答案的有效性也缺乏他所见的证据。
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