https://preview.redd.it/1dv2u3f9wf2h1.png?width=2538&format=png&auto=webp&s=76d758e1c786222a1b26271dae071799a65b24a8 So the head of the UK Electoral Commission, Vijay Rangarajan, just called for new legal restrictions on AI chatbots. It’s based on a recent report from a think tank called Demos that looked at AI misinformation during the Scottish elections. They ran a test asking five free AI tools 75 different election questions. Overall about 34% of the answers were just flat out wrong. Replika did the worst with a 56% error rate. ChatGPT was at 46% and Google Gemini hit 22%. Grok actually had the lowest error rate at 9%, though apparently the links it provided were pretty bad. The bots were doing stuff like inventing fake candidates, making up scandals, and getting election dates wrong. ChatGPT even gave incorrect info on actual voting rules. And in almost half the responses, the AI couldn’t even point to an official source. This is a pretty big deal because a related survey found that 20% of UK voters (which is roughly 10 million people) used AI platforms to get information about the election. Right now the UK doesn’t really have any laws that directly hold AI companies responsible for spreading election misinformation. Because of that, the Electoral Commission is asking the government to put some actual legal obligations on these platforms. Here is the source if anyone wants to read more about it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/20/ai-chatbots-chatgpt-replika-grok-gemini-misinformation-scottish-election-demos submitted by /u/andrewaltair
Originally posted by u/andrewaltair on r/ArtificialInteligence