AI chatbots are telling Israeli voters exactly what they want to hear (opens original article in a new tab)

Israeli startup Chatoptic tested AI chatbots' election recommendations by creating personas, finding that chatbots avoid direct political advice and rely on news sources, with some models using real-time data and others relying on outdated information.

• Israeli startup Chatoptic created 26 personas to test AI chatbots' election recommendations
• Chatbots avoid direct political recommendations and require indirect questioning
• AI answers mostly rely on Israeli news sites, raising concerns about media bias
• Perplexity uses real-time web data while ChatGPT relies on static training data