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May 20th 2026

Electoral Hallucinations: Safeguarding UK elections in the world of LLMs and AI chatbots

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Demos - UK
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Demos is a think tank based in the United Kingdom with a cross-party political viewpoint. It was founded in 1993 and specialises in social policy, developing evidence-based solutions in a range of areas - from education and skills to health and housing.
Jamie Hancock and Azzurra Moores

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Topics in this document

Fact-checking Large language model Artificial intelligence Grok (chatbot) ChatGPT Online Safety Act 2023 Generative artificial intelligence Claude (language model) Chatbot Election OpenAI Misinformation Deepfake Google Gemini Grokipedia Disinformation Hallucination (artificial intelligence) Political bias XAI (company) Anthropic Perplexity AI Retrieval-augmented generation Politics Fake news Replika Regulation of artificial intelligence Bias Crime Elon Musk Human communication

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1: General Public Services 1.6: General Public Services n.e.c. 3: Public Order and Safety 3.6: Public Order and Safety n.e.c.

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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior 1 Georgia Institute of Technology 1 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 1 Japan Science and Technology Agency 1 University of Oxford 1 Agence Nationale de la Recherche 1 HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council 1

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