With just days before the presidential election, Latino voters are facing a barrage of targeted ads in Spanish and a new source of political messaging in the artificial intelligence age: chatbots generating unfounded claims in Spanish about voting rights. AI models are producing a stream of election-related falsehoods in Spanish more frequently than in English, according to an analysis by two nonprofit newsrooms. Proof News and Factchequeado found that AI models get some basic information about elections wrong in Spanish — the second-most spoken language in the United States. Voting rights groups worry AI models may deepen information disparities for Spanish-speaking constituents.
