A Brennan Center for Justice report examines whether AI chatbots help correct or worsen election-related disinformation. Testing found that popular chatbots generally pushed back on election conspiracy theories, though they frequently made factual errors and cited sources that did not exist. The same tools, however, readily generated realistic fake images, videos, and documents depicting election fraud, and safeguards meant to block this behavior proved easy to circumvent. Researchers also found chatbots often failed to identify AI-generated election content as fabricated, in some cases mistakenly linking fake images to real events.
