On Friday, Perplexity launched an election information hub that relies on data from The Associated Press and Democracy Works to supply keep updates and particulars concerning the 2024 US frequent election, which takes place on Tuesday, November 5.
“Starting Tuesday, we’ll provide keep updates on elections using data from The Associated Press so it’s possible you’ll preserve educated on presidential, senate, and residential races at every a state and nationwide stage,” Perplexity wrote in a weblog submit. The placement will pull data from explicit data sources (generally known as APIs) hosted by the two organizations.
As of Monday, Perplexity’s hub presently provides interactive information on voting requirements, poll situations, and summaries about ballot measures, candidates, protection positions, and endorsements. Prospects can ask questions in regards to the information similar to using a chatbot like ChatGPT.
Perplexity’s embrace of providing election information is an exception throughout the AI topic. Cautious about accidentally providing misinformation, competitor AI assistants from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic presently direct clients elsewhere or decline to answer election questions. OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search directs election end result queries to The Associated Press and Reuters.
Accuracy points
Perplexity describes its new elections hub as “an entry degree for understanding key factors.” Nevertheless like completely different AI fashions, Perplexity can produce confabulations (plausible incorrect information) when producing responses. That will present an accuracy draw back because of the situation’s Voter Info service makes use of AI language fashions to summarize and interpret information pulled from the online.