But the companies told us that their election safeguards are not always included in their APIs. Meta said that rendered our analysis “meaningless.” Google, OpenAI and Anthropic said they were always working on improvements. Mistral did not reply to our inquiries.
Despite the limitations of our study, it is clear that AI models do not currently perform well enough to be trusted to answer voters’ questions — raising serious concerns about these models’ potential use in a critical election year.