In a piece for the Financial Times, Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the Cyber Policy Center Fellow Marietje Schaake discussed how chatbots are generating misinformation about elections and recommending parties even after developers promised they would not do so. The issue came to a head before the elections in the Netherlands, when chatbots mixed up political party positions and misled voters about election timing, prompting the Netherlands’ data protection authorities to warn against trusting them for accurate information.
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