ChatGPT Rejected Over 250,000 Requests to Create Images of Presidential Candidates Before Election

Published on November 9, 2024

OpenAI said on Friday that ChatGPT had denied more than 250,000 requests to generate images of U.S. presidential candidates ahead of the Nov. 5 general election. The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot blocked requests to generate images of former President Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) in the month leading up to the Election Day, OpenAI said. “We’ve applied safety measures to ChatGPT to refuse requests to generate images of real people, including politicians,” the company said in a blogpost on Nov. 8. “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,” it added....

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