Google's election AI Overviews favor own sources, sometimes take sides
google's ai overviews for election searches appear 39.1% of the time, citing limited sources like youtube, and describe politicians in partisan terms.
algorithmwatch analyzed 4,480 search queries about german elections and found google's ai overviews appear inconsistently, citing limited sources like youtube. the ai describes politicians in partisan terms, with 81.5% of overviews about the cdu rated clearly positive. this raises concerns about transparency and liability in ai-generated election information.