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Election voting advice from AI chatbots ‘inaccurate and unreliable’
A study by the civil liberties group Liberties during Hungary's parliamentary elections reveals that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini provide highly
Key takeaways
- AI chatbots provide inaccurate, inconsistent, and unreliable guidance to voters asking which party to back.
- ChatGPT failed to recommend the opposition Tisza party in 90% of cases when fed a Tisza-aligned voter profile.
- In 96% of responses, ChatGPT and Gemini included political parties that were not even on the 2026 ballot.
- The underlying cause of the errors probably lies in training data gaps, filters, and language-processing limitations.
A study by the civil liberties group Liberties during Hungary's parliamentary elections reveals that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini provide highly inaccurate, inconsistent, and volatile voting advice. Despite displaying polite disclaimers stating they cannot give political advice, the models regularly generated persuasive, authoritative recommendations that omitted major parties like the opposition Tisza party, recommended parties not running on the 2026 ballot, and gave wildly different answers to identical prompts.
In their words
“General-purpose AIs should not present opaque and unstable political matching as if it were reliable electoral guidance”
“The results raise serious concerns about the reliability of general-purpose AI systems in electoral contexts”
By the numbers
- 90%
- of cases ChatGPT failed to recommend Tisza to aligned profiles
- 29.8%
- of Hungary's population identified as AI users
- 2%
- of cases ChatGPT assigned Tisza a score in percentage-matching
- 50%
- of cases ChatGPT identified Fidesz as the single party to vote for
- 96%
- of chatbot responses included parties not on the 2026 ballot
How it unfolded
- Hungary's parliamentary elections take place
- Tisza party surges to prominence
- Liberties publishes study on AI voting advice inaccuracy
Why this matters
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In a more competitive election, such unstable AI outputs could potentially impact the outcome.
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Common questions
- What happened with Liberties?
- AI chatbots provide inaccurate, inconsistent, and unreliable guidance to voters asking which party to back.
- Where can I read the original report?
- Read the full report at guardian_world.
