In the world this year election year and one of the most important of these elections is the US presidential election. Democratic Party candidate during the pre-election candidate selection process Dean Philipswanted to use artificial intelligence to build a warmer relationship with voters, but couldn’t get past OpenAI.

called Delphi artificial intelligence initiative A chatbot called Dean.Bot, developed by , caught the attention of voters. The bot answers questions and provides information about the candidate’s projects in Philips style. We deserve better He was called a product of the Philips supporters organization.

Artificial intelligence that imitates the presidential candidate

In fact, Dean.Bot did not directly imitate Philips; so did the people who visited the website they will have a conversation with a chatbot and received a warning about the nature of chatbots. However, such usage OpenAI Developer Policy Dean.Bot didn’t last long as things clearly got out of hand. According to information from OpenAI, Delphi’s ChatGPT access has been blocked.

OpenAI wants to keep artificial intelligence away from politics

In a long blog post that OpenAI published a few weeks ago: Attitudes towards artificial intelligence before the elections explained and “chatbots pretending to be candidates”It was stated that it would not be allowed. OpenAI too Dean.Bot In his response to a question about , he also explained that people should not “develop applications for political campaigns and lobbying activities.”

Following this statement, Delphi replaced ChatGPT with open source They had started using another artificial intelligence, but when OpenAI put its weight behind it, they decided to disable the bot completely. When you try to use Dean.Bot on the site, “With our apologies, DeanBot is currently away campaigning!You will get the message ‘.

There is no statement yet from Delphi, Dean Philips and OpenAI on this subject.