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An official Swedish AI service was misused to create a greeting for Adolf Hitler


The Swedish Moderate Party launched an AI service for personalized greetings from Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, but it was misused to generate messages for controversial figures like Adolf Hitler. The service lacked filters, leading to its shutdown.

The Swedish Moderate Party launched an AI service that sends personalized greetings from Ulf Kristersson ahead of the 2026 election. Ahead of the upcoming 2026 election, the Moderates introduced a service allowing personalized greetings from Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) to individuals they believe should join the party. Other names used when TV4 tested the service included Uganda's former dictator Idi Amin and terrorist Anders Behring Breivik.

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