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Cake day: February 4th, 2026
  • Researchers tested how the services ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Grok and Replika performed on a single day during the 2026 Scottish pre-election window and found:

    • One third (34.1%) of responses across chatbots contained factual errors, whilst reliability varied significantly across services
    • Errors included getting the date of election day wrong, giving wrong information about the need for voters to bring ID, “hallucinating” a candidate, and making up an expenses scandal on one occasion, and a nepotism scandal on another.

    We reveal new evidence of the scale of these services’ unreliability during elections and make recommendations for the government to close the regulatory gap.

    The last bit is the most important imo: Chatbots must not be allowed to present themselves as providers of information. Nor should any commercial/official body be allowed to rely on them.

  • I don’t like the tone of this NYT article. It implies that the USA have already shown actual aggression towards Greenland and by extension Denmark, the EU and even NATO, and might do it again.

    And “Like in Iran” really isn’t a valid comparison here.

    OTOH it pisses me off that EU leaders still treat the USA as their biggest partner. I mean Greenland already did concede to US demands. Why isn’t simply ignoring him an option? It’s past time to break that old paradigm down.