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Perplexity Will Show Live US Election Results Despite AI Accuracy Warnings
Monday November 4, 2024. 11:10 PM , from Slashdot
Perplexity's embrace of providing election information is an exception in the AI field. Wary about accidentally providing misinformation, competitor AI assistants from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic currently direct users elsewhere or decline to answer election questions. OpenAI's ChatGPT Search directs election result queries to The Associated Press and Reuters. Perplexity describes its new elections hub as 'an entry point for understanding key issues.' But like other AI models, Perplexity can produce confabulations (plausible incorrect information) when generating responses. That could present an accuracy problem because the site's Voter Guide service uses AI language models to summarize and interpret information pulled from the web. Here's what Ars Technica advises: 'Take what you see on Perplexity's site with a huge grain of salt -- do not rely on it without verifying the information with a trustworthy external source.' Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/24/11/04/2130256/perplexity-will-show-live-us-election-results-d...
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