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Title: ChatGPT rejected 250,000 election deepfake requests

Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 17:00:37 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/ai/chatgpt-rejected-...

A lot of people tried to use OpenAI's DALL-E image generator during the
election season, but the company said that it was able to stop them from
using it as a tool to create deepfakes. ChatGPT rejected over 250,000
requests to generate images with President Biden, President-elect Trump, Vice
President Harris, Vice President-elect Vance and Governor Walz, OpenAI said
in a new report. The company explained that it's a direct result of a safety
measure it previously implemented so that ChatGPT would refuse to generate
images with real people, including politicians.

OpenAI has been preparing for the US presidential elections since the
beginning of the year. It laid out a strategy that was meant to prevent its
tools from being used to help spread misinformation and made sure that people
asking ChatGPT about voting in the US are directed to CanIVote.org. OpenAI
said 1 million ChatGPT responses directed people to the website in the month
leading up to election day. The chatbot also generated 2 million responses on
election day and the day after, telling people who ask it for the results to
check Associated Press, Reuters and other news sources. OpenAI made sure that
ChatGPT's responses "did not express political preferences or recommend
candidates even when asked explicitly," as well.

Of course, DALL-E isn't the only AI image generator out there, and there are
plenty of election-related deepfakes going around social media. One such
deepfake featured Kamala Harris in a campaign video altered so that she'd say
things she didn't actually say, such as "I was selected because I am the
ultimate diversity hire."

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/ai/chatgpt-rejected-...
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