ChatGPT, the chatbot driven by artificial intelligence, is helping the conservative BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB - Farmers Citizens Movement) in the Netherlands to develop its election programme, Dutch radio station BNR reported on Thursday.
The small pro-European party Volt also uses AI.
New parliamentary elections are scheduled to take place in the Netherlands on 22 November. BNR therefore asked all parties represented in the Lower House whether they planned to use AI in their campaigns. In other countries, the technology is also being used to win voters.
BBB said party staffers were using a ChatGPT-based extension to distil the essence of party leader Caroline van der Plas’s parliamentary contributions. Based on this, the chatbot makes suggestions for the party programme.
Campaign leader Henk Vermeer explained to BNR that ChatGPT helps to summarise and “organise” issues. Writing texts is not done by AI, he said.
Volt is the only other party that says it will deploy AI during the upcoming election campaign. The other parties said they did not plan to do so, or did not wish to comment.
