{"id":15863,"date":"2024-09-12T10:38:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T08:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/12\/xs-ai-chatbot-spread-voter-misinformation-and-election-officials-fought-back\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T10:38:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T08:38:40","slug":"xs-ai-chatbot-spread-voter-misinformation-and-election-officials-fought-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/12\/xs-ai-chatbot-spread-voter-misinformation-and-election-officials-fought-back\/","title":{"rendered":"X\u2019s AI chatbot spread voter misinformation \u2013 and election officials fought back"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the Grok tool gave false information, a collection of election officials sprang into action to tamp it down<\/p>\n

Soon after Joe Biden announced he was ending his bid for re-election, misinformation started spreading online about whether a new candidate could take the president\u2019s place.<\/p>\n

Screenshots that claimed a new candidate could not be added to ballots in nine states moved quickly around Twitter, now X, racking up millions of views. The Minnesota secretary of state\u2019s office began getting requests for fact-checks of these posts, which were flat-out wrong \u2013 ballot deadlines had not passed, giving Kamala Harris plenty of time to have her name added to ballots.<\/p>\n

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\nWhen the Grok tool gave false information, a collection of election officials sprang into action to tamp it down
\nSoon after Joe Biden announced he was ending his bid for re-election, misinformation started spreading online about whether a new candidate could take the president\u2019s place.
\nScreenshots that claimed a new candidate could not be added to ballots in nine states moved quickly around Twitter, now X, racking up millions of views. The Minnesota secretary of state\u2019s office began getting requests for fact-checks of these posts, which were flat-out wrong \u2013 ballot deadlines had not passed, giving Kamala Harris plenty of time to have her name added to ballots. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the Grok tool gave false information, a collection of election officials sprang into action to tamp it down Soon after Joe Biden announced he was ending his bid for re-election, misinformation started spreading online about whether a new candidate could take the president\u2019s place. Screenshots that claimed a new candidate could not be added …<\/p>\n

X\u2019s AI chatbot spread voter misinformation \u2013 and election officials fought back<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15863"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}