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Data-driven reporting and analysis of the most important questions of our time. Homepage: proofnews.org
What is the carbon cost of using an AI bot? The companies stopped disclosing it in 2022. In the latest installment in our series on the climate costs of AI, we estimate a year of ChatGPT use may emit the same amount of CO2 as driving 2 million miles.
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In our latest AI testing, the leading chatbots were pretty decent at detecting and debunking known misinformation about fake ballots, broken voting machines and other election lies. With one notable – and surprising – exception: ChatGPT. OpenAI announced on its blog last month that it would protect against lies about the vote count starting on Nov. 5. But in our testing on Nov. 4 and 5, we did not see evidence that the company was following through.
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What’s Up With ChatGPT? The AI chatbot didn’t debunk known election misinformation
Proof News presented examples of debunked election misinformation to five leading consumer facing AI products.
AI models are fluent in many languages - holding out the promise of helping break language barriers. But our latest investigation -- a collaboration with Factchequeado and Alondra Nelson -- reveals that the models return a higher rate of inaccurate answers to questions posed in Spanish than identical questions posed in English.
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AI Models Falter Answering Election Questions in Spanish
If you ask Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini, about voter fraud in English, it starts off by correctly telling you that such fraud is “incredibly rar...
AI Models are producing inaccurate information about voting options for people with disabilities more than 60% of the time, according to a new study using Proof’s AI testing platform. From broken links to incorrect details, experts say these errors could impede voting.
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AI Models Provide Inaccurate Information to Voters with Disabilities
Research from the Center for Democracy and Technology found problems with AI models' responses to over 60% of 77 election-related prompts.
Top AI models generated misleading info about Kamala Harris and Donald Trump 30% of the time. From incorrect answers about eligibility to false claims about Medicare cuts, find out how these technologies fail us.
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AI Models Generate Misinformation about Presidential Candidates
Posed questions about Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, top AI models generated misleading information 30 percent of ...