PARIS, France: A brief conversation with a partisan AI chatbot can influence voters' political views, studies published Dec 4 found, with evidence-backed arguments – true or not – proving particularly persuasive.

Experiments with generative artificial intelligence models, such as OpenAI's GPT-4o and Chinese alternative DeepSeek, found they were able to shift supporters of Republican Donald Trump towards his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris by almost four points on a 100-point scale ahead of the 2024 US presidential election.