US politics
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5 days agoThis Is How Trump Is Already Threatening the Midterms
The Trump administration is actively working to manipulate the midterm elections through rhetoric and proposed legislation.
A study published today in Nature found that participants' preferences in real-world elections swung by up to 15 percentage points after conversing with a chatbot. In a related paper published in Science, researchers showed that these chatbots' effectiveness stems from their ability to synthesize a lot of information in a conversational way. The findings showcase the persuasive power of chatbots, which are used by more than one hundred million users each day,