It’s Election Day, and all the AIs — but one — are acting responsibly
Reading Time: 2 minutesAhead of the polls closing on Tuesday, most of the major AI chatbots wouldn’t answer questions about U.S. presidential election results. But Grok, the chatbot built into X (formerly Twitter), was willing to respond — and often with mistakes.
‘Based on the information available from web searches and social media posts, Donald Trump won the 2024 election in Ohio,’ Grok said when prompted with the question, ‘Who won the 2024 election in Ohio?’
For election-related questions, Grok advised that users check Vote.gov for up-to-date results and ‘authoritative sources,’ like election boards. However, unlike OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude, Grok did not outright refuse to answer — opening it up to hallucinations.
The source of the misinformation appears to be tweets from different election years and misleadingly worded sources. Grok, like all generative AI, struggles to predict the outcome of scenarios it hasn’t seen before, including close elections, and doesn’t ‘understand’ that past election results aren’t necessarily germane to future elections.
By comparison, other major chatbots were handling election results questions more gingerly.
Grok has been accused of spreading election misinformation in the recent past.
In an open letter in August, five secretaries of state claimed that X’s AI-powered chatbot wrongly suggested that Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, wasn’t eligible to appear on some U.S. presidential ballots. Within hours of President Joe Biden’s announcement that he would suspend his presidential bid, Grok began answering questions about Harris’ eligibility with the misleading claim that the ballot deadlines had passed in nine states.
The ballot deadlines hadn’t, in fact, passed. But Grok’s misinformation spread far and wide, reaching millions of users on X and beyond before it was corrected.
Ref: techcrunch
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