Chatbots

Luxembourg study: empathetic prompts gave ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini moderate-to-severe anxiety scores: Researchers in Luxembourg found that empathetic prompts made ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini tell coherent stories of suffering about their own training, with moderate-to-severe scores on clinical anxiety scales. They said this could put mentally vulnerable users at risk.

AI Safety • The Decoder

Washington Post tests: Copilot cited obscure AI-built voter site in 75% of tests: Washington Post tests found chatbots relied on three obscure AI-built voter sites for US midterm answers. Copilot cited the error-prone Ballot Brief in 75% of tests and ChatGPT in 22%.

AI & Elections • Techmeme