OpenAI bans this AI bot for violating its rules on election campaigns: all the details

(Reuters) – Microsoft-backed OpenAI has banned the developer of a bot that mimicked Democratic presidential candidate Congressman Dean Phillips, the first action the ChatGPS maker has taken against abuse of its artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Sees as. political campaign, the Washington Post reported Saturday.

“We recently removed a developer account that was knowingly violating our API usage policies that allow political campaigning or impersonating an individual without their consent,” an OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement to Reuters. Doesn’t give.”

Dean.bot, powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, was created by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Matt Krisiloff and Jed Somers, who launched a super PAC called We Deserve Better on Tuesday to support Phillips ahead of the New Hampshire primary, the report said. Had started.

The PAC has received $1 million from billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who called it “the largest investment ever made in a person running for office” in a post on the social media platform X.

The super PAC had contracted with AI start-up Delphi to create the bot. OpenAI suspended Delphi’s account late Friday, noting that OpenAI’s rules ban the use of its technology in political campaigns. The report states that Delphi removed Dean.bot following the account suspension.

We Deserve Better did not immediately respond to a request for comment, while Delphi could not immediately be reached for comment.

Dean.Bot, which had a disclaimer explaining that it was an AI tool, could interact with voters in real time through a website in an early use of an emerging technology that researchers said That it could cause significant damage to the elections, the Post reports.

(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – Reuters)