Scott Wiener Campaign Launches Connie Chan AI Chatbot, Highlighting Chan's Voting Record as Supervisor

Nancy Pelosi’s pick for Congress skewered by AI chatbot

California state Sen. Scott Wiener launched a parody AI chatbot mocking his rival Connie Chan, a San Francisco supervisor, escalating the bitter fight to succeed Nancy Pelosi in Congress.

Scott Wiener Campaign Launches Connie Chan AI Chatbot, Highlighting Chan's Voting Record as Supervisor

The campaign supporting Scott Wiener for Congress has launched a new interactive, parody AI chatbot that poses as rival candidate Connie Chan, and mocks her stances and votes on various issues.

Uncanny ads and partisan chatbots: AI toys with San Francisco politics

San Francisco’s political experiment with the technology has only just begun. But it’s already permeating civic discourse. Uncanny ads and partisan chatbots: AI toys with San Francisco politics

Wiener's racist, sexist Anthropic AI chatbot attacks Chan–and it's weird and stupid and gross

We knew this was coming: When state Sen. Scott Wiener is in a close race, he immediately uses negative, inaccurate ads to attack his opponent. We also knew AI would make an appearance in local politics, and in this race. It started today, when Wiener’s campaign, backed by Big Tech including Anthropic, used the Claude AI tool to set up a fake site claiming to be a chance to chat with Sup. Connie Chan. Even by Wiener’s standards, this is pretty gr…