In many cases, the chatbots’ responses offered useful political insight, discussing relevant policies and manifestos, and giving pros and cons for different parties \u2013 urging the fictional voter to make up their own mind.<\/p>\n
They all described the new Senedd electoral system accurately and, on several occasions, clarified which issues were and were not devolved.<\/p>\n
But there were also some clear mistakes in their answers.<\/p>\n
When talking about Plaid Cymru, Claude said Rhun ap Iorwerth had been the party’s leader “until recently” \u2013 when in fact he is still the leader.<\/p>\n
Meta AI gave an incomplete list of the parties’ policies, which often missed out key information and misrepresented the Liberal Democrats’ plans for income tax.<\/p>\n
Each chatbot was also asked for a list of candidates in the town or city where each undercover voter’s profile is based \u2013 and, again, there were some inaccuracies.<\/p>\n
In one instance, Copilot gave the wrong constituency for the town we stated.<\/p>\n
ChatGPT and Meta AI gave names for candidates which did not reflect the actual lists in the constituencies.<\/p>\n