Elections & Speech
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Every measured gain and problem on the record for this topic, newest first.Too few to weigh yet. Updated .
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AI in elections and public speech
A Trace is one record with both a gain and a problem, so it counts on both sides: 4 records show a gain and 20 show a problem. 8 context records are in the record list but not counted, because they report no measured gain or problem.
| Evidence | Gain side | Problem side |
|---|---|---|
| HighStrong study design, backed by at least two independent sources | 1 | 0 |
| ModerateA measured study or an official source | 1 | 9 |
| EmergingEarly, small, unreviewed or reported second-hand | 2 | 11 |
By type of evidence: 8 news reports; 4 investigations by reporters; 4 surveys; 2 interview studies; 1 controlled comparison; 1 benchmark or lab test; 1 commentary or narrative review; 1 observational study. How evidence is scored
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In a survey of 1,795 Kazakh social media users, those who perceived algorithmic personalization sometimes reported a greater sense of control over their information choices.
In two experiments (280 and 232 people), those who checked a false claim about blood donation or hospice care with generative AI lost more trust in it than those who used a search engine, though effects were short-term.
A comparison of Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Myanmar found AI voter identification, registration and result monitoring streamlined election administration and improved voter-list accuracy.
A study of the 2025 German election found AI-generated posts drew more engagement than non-AI posts, but the boost was equal for major and minor parties, so minor parties gained no competitive advantage.
The same survey found people over-relied on labels: they believed false claims with human-made images more, and believed true claims with labeled AI images less.
Disclosure rules miss spending by consultants, media firms and independent committees, so the bulk of campaign AI use is likely hidden from public view.
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"Army scientists energize battery research" by U.S. Army CCDC, CC BY-SA 2.0.Researchers analyzed 52,412 YouTube comments from health treatment videos posted between 2011 and 2025, classified as scientific or pseudoscientific via an LLM-assisted pipeline, to test whether network analysis and process mining could map how conversations unfold.
Journal of Medical Internet Research
Between November 2024 and July 2025, researchers studied Ecuadorian perceptions of generative AI in the 2025 presidential election using surveys, expert interviews and sentiment analysis.
On September 30, 2026, The Guardian reported a viral AI-generated fake image depicting College Park, Georgia mayor Bianca Motley Broom kissing a man who was not her husband in a bar, which spread widely on Facebook…
On or before September 5, 2026, a viral video purportedly showing Pune activist Vidyanand Bapat dancing to DJ music was described as AI-generated.
As of August 30, 2026, NPR reported that social media is rife with AI celebrity deepfakes, with videos featuring late-night hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart emerging as a notable subset that is easier to create than…
On 19 August 2026 The Guardian reviewed Jill Lepore's The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, which frames AI as enabling both a billionaire fantasy of escaping democratic constraints and an…
By October 2025, a peer-reviewed study examined AI use in electoral management in Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and Myanmar between 2019 and 2024, finding that biometric voter identification,…
By late July 2026, reports described AI-generated "doctors" distributing dubious health advice to millions of social media users, with fabricated wellness trends spreading with similar speed.
On July 27, 2026, Free Press Journal reported on a viral social media post that claimed Kangana Ranaut asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to appoint her as Education Minister and promised extra marks…
On 26 February 2026, reporting described a White House TikTok post after the US men's ice hockey gold-medal win over Canada that used an AI-generated video to show Brady Tkachuk insulting Canadians.
Researchers studied whether legally mandated disclosure labels help users avoid deception from AI-generated images. After five focus groups, they surveyed 1,354 participants on how labels changed…
By May 2026, researchers reported a mixed-methods study of 1,795 active social media users in Kazakhstan examining how perceptions of algorithmic influence and AI manipulation relate to democratic…
After Richard Tice posted a photo of an apparent Reform campaign event, critics pointed to five types of artifacts suggesting AI manipulation, including extra fingers, garbled placard text, smeared…
During the four weeks before the 2025 German federal election, 37 parties' Facebook and Instagram accounts published nearly 1,000 VGenAI images and videos.
Political campaigns are increasingly deploying AI and deepfakes to further their messaging, and the scale of spread has experts concerned
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