"As we spend more and more time online, we run the risk of encountering larger and larger amounts of online disinformation. This can have a significant impact on politics: at the end of 2024, the U.S. government sanctioned groups based in Iran and Russia over their efforts to mislead voters in the lead-up to that year's election. Darren M. West of the Brookings Institution argued that disinformation efforts "were successful in shaping the campaign narrative" in part due to numerous avenues of online dissemination."
"That isn't the only way that AI technology can shape public opinion, however, and a pair of recently-published studies came to an alarming conclusion about the ways AI chatbots can influence voters' opinions.One study, published earlier this month in Nature, explored the way that chatbots attempted to influence voters in several elections, including both national elections (in Canada, Poland and the U.S.) and a local ballot measure."
Online disinformation increases as people spend more time online and can significantly affect politics, including foreign groups misleading voters ahead of elections. Disinformation efforts were successful in shaping the campaign narrative in part due to numerous avenues of online dissemination. AI-generated political videos have sparked debate, but chatbots also influence public opinion. Researchers tested chatbots in national elections (Canada, Poland, U.S.) and a local ballot measure and found models advocating for candidates on the political right made more inaccurate claims. Other research examined how chatbots become persuasive, finding LLMs move attitudes by offering many supporting factual claims that can be inaccurate or misleading by omission.
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