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CDT’s Linzer: “It’s hard to imagine what perfect political neutrality about a candidate or political issue would even look like in a personalized conversation, so while neutrality is an admirable goal, I’m skeptical of what it means in practice.”

“Political actors are … producing content that’s intentionally flattering to one candidate or misleading about another to get cited favorably in AI answers. This is sometimes called ‘poisoning’ the search results, Linzer says.”