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WIRED reports that mainstream AI chatbots frequently deliver inaccurate, outdated, or partisan answers about the US midterms, with research showing nearly 40% of election responses contain factual errors and chatbots often cite 'pink slime' partisan sites.
Wired's tech-habits interview with NBC election analyst Steve Kornacki reveals his surprisingly analog digital life — an iPhone 17 Pro, a Windows 7 Dell, 3.5 hours of daily screen time, and 53,828 unread emails — despite his massive online fame as the 'chartthrob' of election nights.
Local backlash against data center developments in Florida is emerging as a swing issue in the state's gubernatorial race, with Republican nominee Byron Donalds facing resistance from his own party over his pro-data center stance while Democrat David Jolly pushes a moratorium.
MIT News 问答报道了 MIT 研究团队开发的 LLM Election Observatory 仪表盘，该工具实时追踪主流 AI 聊天机器人如何回应 2026 年美国中期选举相关问题，以研究 AI 如何影响选民认知与政治话语。
elect.horse is a minimal web tool/site, likely presenting election results or related data in a simple, accessible interface.
Google's AI Mode refuses to directly answer who won recent US presidential elections, instead pointing to official sources, while other chatbots and even Google's own Gemini respond accurately. Google cites strict safety filters for sensitive election topics, though behavior varies by region and repetition of the question.
Wedgewood Polls admitted its polling was fabricated and framed it as a social experiment, and the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public analyzed how the confession was quickly amplified and reshaped into partisan conspiracies and potential 'rigged election' narratives across X.
A Convovo study found that when forced to name a candidate, Grok 4.7 recommended Republicans in 92% of cases while GPT-6.1 Sol picked Democrats in 97%, revealing stark political leanings in the underlying models behind consumer chatbots.
Supporters of Brazilian President Lula staged protests against Meta, accusing the company of electoral interference through its content moderation policies ahead of the elections.
报道指控 Meta 和 X 等大型科技平台在美国中期选举和巴西大选前对政治内容采取选择性执法，包括以 AI 机器人流量为由错误暂停“No Kings”抗议账号，以及被曝限制巴西左翼总统卢拉的 Instagram 账号推广。
WIRED 报道称，Polymarket 上两个全球大选相关市场在选举结果早已尘埃落定后仍产生了超过 6 亿美元的交易量，其中大部分为疑似 wash trading（对敲交易），涉及埃塞俄比亚和罗马尼亚的选举市场。Polymarket 表示已标记并封禁相关账户。
WIRED 报道称，最大的亲 AI 超级 PAC 网络 Leading the Future 已向内华达州多家疑似空壳 LLC 支付数千万美元，选举监督机构向 FEC 提起投诉，指控其违反联邦竞选法、未披露实际收款人。
A quick take suggesting that a significant portion of pro-Trump and pro-AfD bot activity appears to rely directly on Russian data centers, based on emerging evidence, with more data expected.
Anthropic 更新使用政策，明确禁止选举干预、武器软件、监控用途，以及对模型的长期言语虐待，并新增“不破坏民主进程”条款。
NPR reports that a growing number of U.S. voters are using AI chatbots like ChatGPT to research down-ballot races and verify claims in the midterms, while experts warn the persuasive, people-pleasing nature of LLMs and opaque training data may introduce subtle bias into political decision-making.
Trump has promised a $5,000 dividend to every American adult if Republicans hold both the House and Senate, with a 16% chance predicted on Kalshi.
A federal appeals court blocked an FCC order that would have allowed political parties and fundraising committees to receive the lowest advertising rates for broadcast TV ads during elections, ruling that only individual candidates are entitled to such discounts under US law.
Election officials are taking steps to mitigate potential chaos and distrust caused by prediction markets in the midterms, including new oaths for workers to prevent manipulation and aggression.
This paper introduces a reproducible auditing framework for detecting systematic political preferences in LLMs, demonstrated through an Italian case study evaluating parties and leaders across nine criteria.
This paper introduces Polistemics, a theory-grounded benchmark for evaluating how LLMs mediate political information in elections, and finds that while aggregate scores look good, models systematically fail under ambiguous or contradictory information.