How US Campaigns Are Already Using AI to Try to Sway Voters

ChatGPT bans campaigns from using AI to make ads. They’re doing it anyway.

A Washington Post review found 39 campaigns that disclosed payments to AI companies, but consultants say many more do it and don’t disclose it.

Campaigns Use AI Despite ChatGPT Ban

“Artificial intelligence has subtly entered the machinery of the 2026 midterms, with major-party candidates acknowledging in campaign filings and website fine print that they are using the technology to court voters — despite limits imposed by leading AI companies to protect elections from the technology’s risks,” the Washington Post reports.

How US Campaigns Are Already Using AI to Try to Sway Voters

39 U.S. congressional candidates "reported paying for an OpenAI subscription this election cycle," writes the Washington Post, citing campaign finance disclosures. This means the campaigns "are using the technology to court voters — despite limits imposed by leading AI companies to protect e...