Article: ChatGPT as a voting application in direct democracy
Maud Reveilhac,
Davide Morselli
Abstract:The study investigates the role of Large Language Models (LLMs), especially versions of ChatGPT, as a voting application for upcoming popular votes. It analyses the positions and suggestions of ChatGPT on four voting objects (three initiatives and one referendum) that have not been submitted to vote at the time of conducting the experiment. We ask ChatGPT to impersonate someone from a given placement in the Swiss political landscape (neutral, centrist, left, right, progressist and conservative) and we compare … Show more
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