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ChatGPT maker OpenAI bans US presidential candidate bot
OpenAI has suspended a developer for violating its policies to make a conversational bot in support of a presidential campaign
It had been contracted by We Deserve Better, a Super PAC founded by tech entrepreneurs to back the longshot Phillips campaign, to create “Dean.Bot” – a ChatGPT-powered website that could chat with voters in real time and answer their questions about the candidate’s positions. On Friday night (Jan.19) , after The Washington Post published an article detailing the Dean Phillips chatbot, OpenAI suspended Delphi’s developer account and access to ChatGPT. While Delphi and We Deserve Better viewed Dean.Bot as an innocuous, transparent tool to engage and educate voters, AI ethics experts have raised alarms about the potential abuse of such technologies to spread disinformation and manipulate the democratic process.
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