OpenAI Enforces Ban on AI Bot for Breaching Election Campaign Regulations
(Reuters) – Microsoft-backed OpenAI has banned the developer of a bot impersonating Democratic presidential hopeful Congressman Dean Phillips. The maker of ChatGPT is the first action it is seeing for the misuse of its AI tools. 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 someone without permission,” an OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement to Reuters.
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 to support Phillips ahead of the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, the report added.
The PAC has received $1 million from billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who called it “by far the largest investment I’ve ever made in someone running for office” on social media X.
Super-PAC had contracted with artificial intelligence startup Delphi to build the bot. OpenAI suspended Delphi’s account late Friday, noting that OpenAI’s rules prohibit the use of its technology in political campaigns. Delphi shut down Dean.Bot after the account was suspended, 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 artificial intelligence tool, was able to talk to voters in real time through a website in an early use of a new technology that researchers say could cause significant damage to elections, the Post reported. .
