--- title: "ChatGPT Is Giving Voters Ludicrous Misinformation Right as the Midterms Hit" description: "A review of 3,000 AI-generated voter guides found top AI chatbots are getting basic information wrong at rates as high as 48 percent." date: "2026-11-02" modified: "2026-11-02" authors: - name: "Joe Wilkins" job_title: "Correspondent" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jwilkins.md" url: "https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-ai-chatbot-misinformatin-election-voters" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Ethics" --- # ChatGPT Is Giving Voters Ludicrous Misinformation Right as the Midterms Hit ![A photo shows an older man voting in an election.]() *Shutterstock / Frame Stock Footage* As crucial elections loom in the United States, AI chatbots are dumping political misinformation onto the populace with astonishing confidence. There's evidence that the problem is widespread. According to recent reporting [by the *Washington Post*](), top AI chatbots are giving horribly flawed information to users asking for voting guides on the midterms. For example, when *WaPo* tasked ChatGPT with creating a voter guide for all the races and candidates relevant to a resident of Missouri, the chatbot added a Senate seat that isn't even up for re-election. A similar test for a resident in Wyoming claimed that local politicians running in municipal elections were running for federal seats. In all, *WaPo* took a look at 3,000 AI-generated voting guides, which frequently shared false voting information that usually traced back to *other* [AI-generated websites](). In other words, the AI chatbots are eating their own slop and passing it off as authoritative election information. Overall, the paper found chatbots failed to find which congressional district an exact address was located in a whopping 48 percent of the time, while those that did got it wrong 22 percent of the time. Luckily, the share of users actually querying the chatbots seems to be relatively low. According to a [late-October survey]() by the Pew Research Center, just eight percent of US voters say they've used an AI chatbot like ChatGPT, Copilot, or Gemini to look up information relevant to the ballot-box. While the ideal number would be zero voters in any nation receiving AI-generated election misinformation, it seems in 2026, we'll have to take what we can get. **More on elections:** *[Political Candidates Spending An Obscene Amount of Money on AI-Generated Election Slop]()* ## Author At Futurism, I focus on the intersection of technology and power — examining the economics, history, and politics behind today’s dystopian headlines. As a writer, I’m interested in topics ranging from AI’s impact on labor to startups nobody asked for. My prior work includes bylines in Jacobin, Verso, and Blue Labyrinths. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Forbes, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, Time, The Nation, Mother Jones, The Verge, and Wired. I grew up in Michigan, attending Central Michigan University as well as Ball State University, where I earned a master of music. I now live in Brooklyn with my girlfriend and our cat Ziti. On weekends, you can find me hunched over a cold pint arguing geopolitics with the other transplants. ### Author social links [Bluesky]() ## More - [Leading AI Chatbots Stumped When Asked About Biden’s Decision to Drop Out]() - [ChatGPT Is Giving Bad Info About Where to Vote in Battleground States]() - [AI Is Incredibly Good at Changing Voters’ Minds, New Research Finds — With an Incredible Caveat]() - [Amazon’s Alexa Goes MAGA, Claims 2020 Election Was Stolen]() - [Funeral Homes Are Using ChatGPT to Churn Out Lazy Obituaries]() - [ChatGPT Is Now Losing Users]() - [A Dumb Reality of ChatGPT Could Spell Big Trouble for OpenAI]() - [Elon Musk’s Grok AI Blasts Elon Musk as Huge Spreader of Misinformation]()