The Washington Post revealed that the developer of ChatGPT felt that its tools were misused.
Microsoft-backed OpenAI has suspended the account of the company that programmed a bot that imitated Democratic Congressman Dean Phillips, the first action the ChatGPT developer has taken in response to what it sees as misuse of its artificial intelligence tools ( IA) in a political campaign, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.
“We recently removed a developer account that knowingly violated our API usage policies, which prohibit political campaigning or impersonating a person without their consent,” an OpenAI spokesperson told Reuters.
Dean.Bot, powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, was created by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Matt Krisiloff and Jed Somers, who created a super PAC called We Deserve Better to support Phillips, ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, the report adds. report.
The PAC has received $1 million from billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who called it “by far the largest investment I have ever made in someone running for election” in a post on the networking platform. social
The super PAC had hired AI company Delphi to set up the bot. OpenAI suspended Delphi’s account late Friday, noting that OpenAI’s rules prohibit the use of its technology in political campaigns. Delphi removed Dean.Bot following the account suspension, the report added.
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 chat with voters in real time through a website, in an early use of an emerging technology that researchers said could cause significant damage to the election, the Post reported.