Higher % of right-wing, hyper-partisan, low-fact sites are open to AI web-crawlers than left/center, high-fact sites.

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No surprise, but more reason AI is more likely to spread than debunk lies

AI systems rely on web crawlers to gather training data from across the internet. But not all websites are equally accessible to these tools.

A review of 153 sites found a major imbalance:

— 78% of far-Right, hyper-partisan sites are open to AI crawlers

— 67% of general conservative sites are open

— Only 38% of center-Left sites are accessible

Even more concerning: Low-factual sites are the most open to crawlers, while higher-factuality sources are the least accessible.

Check out the research, sponsored by PSG Consulting and Innovating for the Public Good: R&D for Democracy:

https://www.psgconsulting.com/research-publications/potential-risks-of-ideological-skewing

Tim Chambers of Dewey Square Group and Dewey Digital explains this "inverse funnel" in PSG Consulting's latest #FirstMondaysWebinar:

https://www.psgconsulting.com/videos/v/american-voters-large-language-models