ChatGPT refused more than 250,000 requests to generate images of the US election candidates using their artificial intelligence (AI) platform.
OpenAI, the company behind the AI chatbot, said in a blog update on Friday that their platform DALL-E, used to generate images and video, rejected requests to make images of president-elect Donald Trump, his choice for vice president JD Vance, current president Joe Biden, democratic candidate Kamala Harris, and her vice-presidential pick, Tim Walz.
The refusals were due to “safety measures” that OpenAI put in place before election day, the blog post said.
“These guardrails are especially important in an elections context and are a key part of our broader efforts to prevent our tools being used for deceptive or harmful purposes,” the update read. ...
The company said in August it stopped an Iranian influence campaign called Storm-2035 from generating articles about US politics and posing as conservative and progressive news outlets. ...
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