OpenAI said Friday a technical glitch caused ChatGPT to flag links to Republican websites as being potentially unsafe for users to click.
The apparent bug affects links to WinRed, the official Republican Party donation platform, but does not appear to warn users against clicking on links to ActBlue, the primary Democrat campaign fundraising platform.
“WILD. ChatGPT universally marks [WinRed] links as potentially unsafe,” digital marketer Mike Morrison posted on X after discovering the problem. “Of course ActBlue links are totally fine.”
Morrison had prompted ChatGPT to produce links for various Democratic and Republican political campaign merchandise stores.
Links to the GOP stores, hosted by WinRed, were accompanied by a warning asking users to “check this link is safe.”
“This link isn’t verified and may contain data from your conversation that will be shared with a third-party site,” the warning continued. “Make sure you trust this link before proceeding.”
A warning did not pop-up when Morrison clicked on a link to an ActBlue-run store.
A spokesperson for OpenAI told The Post “this shouldn’t be happening and it’s getting remedied.”
“As soon as we saw the post, we reached out to the individual and looked into it,” OpenAI’s Kate Waters said in a statement.
“This wasn’t about partisan politics,” Waters asserted. “The model generated some website links that weren’t in our search index yet for both WinRed and in one instance for ActBlue, and our systems flagged them as AI-generated as part of our standard safeguards.
“The issue is now in the process of being fully resolved.”
OpenAI has long faced accusations that its artificial intelligence platform is biased toward the Democratic Party and liberal viewpoints.
The WinRed warning outraged Republicans on social media.
“This is election interference,” Ryan Lyk, the CEO of WinRed, posted on X.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) wondered, “Is Chat GPT helping Democrats?”
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