Based on the headline I expected to have opinions about this, but this is about Japanese elections, and I don't know anything about the political factions of Japan. These things don't always translate exactly across international lines.

Title: Voters Increasingly Use AI as Political Advisor. A New Study Shows the Risks.

And the clickbait detector would have stopped you posting your title, so you had to edit this in? Not cool caaqil

Important context: this from a narrow study in Japan. And the explanation is pretty simple:

"The researchers found that the JCP's [Japanese Communist Party] open website and party newspaper were among the most-cited sources in the AI models’ recommendations. Unable to distinguish between editorially independent journalism and partisan content, the models treated the JCP content as a credible news source."

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I can see why commercial models would do this because it's a long term solution to minimising taxation.

For example, America's comically slanted politics casts any kind of mixed economy as socialism/communism (as barely any American can define either) thus tarring any socialisation of policy (eg healthcare) as "communism", which is a bit like encouraging Americans to take up satanism.

Oh man, they answered the question in the beginning:

> The reason, according to the researchers, has to do with the information environment AI systems can access.

Amusingly:

> The researchers also found that incorporating X search amplified left-leaning recommendations in Japan, the opposite of expectations based on the U.S. discourse environment.

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AI is built by liberal developers in general. Most developers are left-leaning, and AI answers like a hardcore democrat. This has always been the case.