{"id":23183,"date":"2026-05-20T16:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/chatgpt-and-other-ai-bots-made-huge-errors-before-scottish-election-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:37:28","slug":"chatgpt-and-other-ai-bots-made-huge-errors-before-scottish-election-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/chatgpt-and-other-ai-bots-made-huge-errors-before-scottish-election-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT and other AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Electoral Commission calls for new controls as Demos finds tools made up fake scandals, invented candidates or gave wrong date<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/may\/20\/keir-starmer-wes-streeting-labour-leadership-kemi-badenoch-pmqs-conservatives-reform-uk-politics-latest-news-updates\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Electoral Commission has called for new legal controls over misinformation from AI chatbots, after a thinktank found they had made serious mistakes during the recent Scottish election.<\/p>\n<p>The thinktank Demos said its investigation had found that AI services gave voters misinformation to 34% of the questions it posed, which it said raised worrying questions about the lack of regulation of AI platforms in the UK.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/20\/ai-chatbots-chatgpt-replika-grok-gemini-misinformation-scottish-election-demos\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/400df0cd532c01ea140eb3014ba2d88f1991933c\/1329_116_4517_3614\/master\/4517.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c0647cd65d8b25e3ebc97657135022f7\" title=\"ChatGPT and other AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds\" \/>Exclusive: Electoral Commission calls for new controls as Demos finds tools made up fake scandals, invented candidates or gave wrong date<br \/>\nUK politics live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nThe Electoral Commission has called for new legal controls over misinformation from AI chatbots, after a thinktank found they had made serious mistakes during the recent Scottish election.<br \/>\nThe thinktank Demos said its investigation had found that AI services gave voters misinformation to 34% of the questions it posed, which it said raised worrying questions about the lack of regulation of AI platforms in the UK. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Electoral Commission calls for new controls as Demos finds tools made up fake scandals, invented candidates or gave wrong date UK politics live \u2013 latest updates The Electoral Commission has called for new legal controls over misinformation from AI chatbots, after a thinktank found they had made serious mistakes during the recent Scottish election. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/chatgpt-and-other-ai-bots-made-huge-errors-before-scottish-election-study-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ChatGPT and other AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23184,"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\/23183"}],"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=23183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}