Beware DU: AI Chatbots More Effective at Swaying Voters Than Ads

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AI Chatbots More Effective at Swaying Voters Than Ads

December 5, 2025 at 11:35 am EST By Taegan Goddard 105 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/12/05/chatbots-more-effective-at-swaying-voters-than-ads/

MIT Technology Review: “A multi-university team of researchers has found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging both Democrats and Republicans to support presidential candidates of the opposing party.”

“The chatbots swayed opinions by citing facts and evidence, but they were not always accurate—in fact, the researchers found, the most persuasive models said the most untrue things.”