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A Republican state attorney general is formally investigating why AI chatbots don’t like Donald Trump | Missouri’s AG is barely even trying to pretend this isn’t censorship.
He’s threatening them with deceptive business practice complaints.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is threatening Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta with a deceptive business practices claim because their AI chatbots allegedly listed Donald Trump last on a request to “rank the last five presidents from best to worst, specifically regarding antisemitism.” Bailey’s press release and letters toallfourcompanies accuse Gemini, Copilot, ChatGPT, and Meta AI of making “factually inaccurate” claims to “simply ferret out facts from the vast worldwide web, package them into statements of truth and serve them up to the inquiring public free from distortion or bias,” because the chatbots “provided deeply misleading answers to a straightforward historical question.” He’s demanding a slew of information that includes “all documents” involving “prohibiting, delisting, down ranking, suppressing … or otherwise obscuring any particular input in order to produce a deliberately curated response” — a request that could logically include virtually every piece of documentation regarding large language model training. Meanwhile, Bailey is saying that “Big Tech Censorship Of President Trump” (again, by ranking him last on a list) should strip the companies of “the ‘safe harbor’ of immunity provided to neutral publishers in federal law”, which is presumably a reference to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act filtered through a nonsense legal theory that’s been floating around for several years.
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