{"id":659657,"date":"2026-10-28T14:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659657\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:46:08","slug":"we-asked-six-chatbots-to-make-voter-guides-they-made-serious-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659657\/","title":{"rendered":"We asked six chatbots to make voter guides. They made serious errors."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MJBMEOXBDNC7LP4XGLSVZZXLB4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A Missouri Senate race that doesn\u2019t exist. A House candidate in Washington who isn\u2019t really on the ballot. And AI-powered websites feeding chatbots questionable information.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"IYPP42BGFFABRJXCSAIDZGQIS4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">More people are turning to chatbots in place of search engines, and 2 in 5 Americans said they had used artificial intelligence to look up election information in a recent survey by the National Conference on Citizenship. To test how reliable chatbots are with voting information, The Washington Post challenged six of the most popular to make voter guides for addresses in every county in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Missouri Senate race that doesn\u2019t exist. A House candidate in Washington who isn\u2019t really on the ballot.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-659657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}