Open AI, creator of ChatGPTremoved a bot that imitated the voice of a presidential candidate in the United States, a measure that reinforces the limits of political campaigns in the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
A political group supporting US Congressman Dean Phillips commissioned a Miami-based company to create a conversational bot that allows users to interact with the candidate through a question-answer format.
«We recently deleted the account of a developer who was knowingly violating our API usage policy (or platform), which does not allow political campaigns or imitation of an individual without their consent,” OpenAI told the Washington Post.
The rise of Generative AI has raised fears that people could use ChatGPT and other platforms to cause political chaos through disinformation or AI clonesparticularly due to the important electoral calendar this year in the world.
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As a leader in that field, OpenAI is under special scrutiny around these concerns. The company said last week of will offer tools to users to reduce the possibility of damage coming from your technology.
He “Dean-bot” was created as an information tool about the Democratic Party primary candidate, who faces President Joe Biden.
The tool is based on OpenAI technology, and was removed after the Washington Post will promote it in an article.
We Deserve Better, the political group behind the botis co-led by a former member of Sam Altman’s team, CEO of OpenAI, and is funded by Silicon Valley investors.
«We have apologized to both OpenAI and We Deserve Better for our mistake,” said Delphi, the startup in charge of developing the bot that was removed from the OpenAI platform.
AFP