Chatbots frequently direct users to low-quality, partisan-backed websites during election periods.

🤖 If you ask a chatbot about the midterms, there's a good chance they'll refer you to a lot of "pink slime." The term refers to low-quality websites that masquerade as legitimate local news outlets but are often partisan-backed & AI-created with a lack of real journalists & standards. 💡 Looking for names, checking for authentic local photos, & doing some lateral reading are good methods to detect these sites that, according to a @newsguardratings study, are cited by ChatGPT 70.8% of the time. #AI Threads

🧠 If you ask a chatbot about the midterms, there's a good chance they'll refer you to a lot of "pink slime." The term refers to low-quality websites that masquerade as legitimate local news outlets but in reality are often partisan-backed & AI-created with a lack of real journalists & standards.