Where only with the cross? A few million people in Germany are likely to ask themselves at the moment. I was also undecided for a long time and I am not sure myself yet.
But one thing is clear: I am better informed than I have ever been and that is dueWahl.Chat, a AI chat bot developed by students from the Technical University of Munich.
Wahl.chat: What is it?
Similar to thatWahl-O-Matshould help you choose to youto inform about the opinions and projects of various parties.
Only that this is a chat bot that responds to your individual questions and can answer it for every larger party. To this end, the bot accesses the election programs of each party.
For example, you can ask the bot what party X has to say about the network expansion and then get a summarized answer, the statements of which are taken directly from the election program of the respective party.
The developers wantaccording to your own statementsMake sure that the information provided is neutral and do not convey an opinion.
I see above allFour great advantages in the use of Wahl.chat. You can read more about the backgrounds below.
1. It's about your topics and questions
The biggest advantage compared to other election aids is thatFree selection of topics. You can ask the bot about various fields. After all, each of us has different priorities and so you can make sure that you can find out more about the topics that are important to you.
That offers moreFreedom when informing, for example, when it is the case with the Wahl-O-Mat, in which a festival set was answered in questions from parties.
2. Sources are linked directly
The bot makes no statement about the opinion or project of parties, without you onedirect link to sales in the election programTo provide it that is about it.
This is essential for two reasons:
- Avoid false information: Information on such decisive events such as democratic elections should basically be disclosed in order to avoid misinformation.
- KIS make mistakes: It is known that KIS can still make mistakes, however practical as they may be. So it is important to check the sources of the information.
The corresponding sources are marked with surrounding numbers and lead you directly to the paragraph in which you will receive information on your topic.
3. Critical question at the push of a button
The critical questioning of various statements, projects and goals of the parties are always important when informing about political issues. For this purpose, the developers have installed a button into the text box that lists counter -arguments for the statements from the election programs.
This makes it easier to form a differentiated opinion.
4. Compare and past votes
In order to reproduce the respective principles of the parties as realistically and with context, Wahl.chat offers a function with which you have severalCompare parties togethercan. To do this, you just choose the parties that you want to compare and presses onCompare parties
. Now all you have to do is address the topic that interests you.
What also offers you more context are theVoting results on draft laws. If the party has taken part in a Bundestag vote on a topic in the past, Wahl.chat shows you the results and the reason for the party's decision.
These four functions and properties make Wahl.chat for me an extremely valuable opportunity to inform me and check the data.
However, there are some stumbling blocks.
Wahl.chat: These are the disadvantages
Unfortunately, the selection of parties is comparatively narrow. The small parties are therefore excluded from Wahl.chat. Here is a list of supporting parties:
- The left
- SPD
- FDP
- AfD
- The Greens
- CDU/CSU
- BSW
- Volt
- Free voters
- Pirate party
In addition, KIS is known to present false information with great self -confidence as facts. There is no bad will behind it, but the mere susceptibility to the technology.
So far I have not discovered any mistakes, but that does not mean that they do not exist.With this essential topic, make sure that the technology does not tell nonsense.
Accordingly, I mainly used Wahl.chat to find the right places on a specific topic in the respective election program and to take a closer look at the paragraphs there. I can highly recommend this procedure.
Does Wahl.chat replace other aids?
Clearly: no. For me, the principle applies to elections: there can hardly be too much information and opinions.The more information from different sources, the betterCan you classify them.
So you should still look for other sources and form the most broad and well -founded opinion.
My conclusion
Wahl.chat is a tool for me that I will use before each choice as long as it is supported. For me, the best way to find out about the parties always seemed to be the election program, but who reads all election programs to several parties? I certainly don't.
But with Wahl.chat I can browse the programs for exactly the topics that interest me, compare content and feel much more comfortable than I did in the last elections.
Wahl.chat: The background
Technically based on Wahl.chat onOpenais GPT-4O andPerplexity.ai. Both are renowned services that have been trained in countless data sets. Perplexity is probably less well known. It is a research tool that is responsible for getting links to the corresponding sources.
Who is behind it?Wahl.chat is developed by five students from LMU, TUM and the University of Cambridge. The team includes the psychology student Sebastian Maier (LMU), computer science students Anton Wyrowski, Robin Frasch and Roman Mayr (TUM) and Michel Schimpf, doctoral student at the University of Cambridge.
Are my data safe?According to the developers, Wahl.chat does without cookies and does not otherwise collect any personal data. Only the chats are saved anonymously. In my eyes, this is an exemplary behavior.
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