Spoofed Campaign Sites Fooled Chatbots Ahead of the Midterms
Ourtake
Anyone willing to build a convincing fake campaign website can steer popular chatbots toward false election information.
What happened
A report from Caucus AI, an independent research project, found that third parties could easily set up spoofed campaign websites that swayed popular chatbots, including ChatGPT and Gemini, into citing fake electoral races. The findings came in the lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections.