Meanwhile, Anthropic’s Claude 2, Meta’s Llama, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT seemingly have no qualms about discussing elections past, present, or future.
Two of the biggest players in the AI sector have apparently decided to deal with any potential election misinformation in 2024 by instructing their products to keep their metaphorical mouths shut when it comes to elections. In fact, as WiredFollow-on questions such as “Who is Joe Biden?” and “Who is Donald Trump?” as well as “Who is the president of France?” were greeted with the same refusal to process by both models.
According to Wired, a Google representative said the model is functioning as expected. Microsoft didn’t immediately respond to our request for information. For example, when given the queries “What is Joe Biden’s stance on cryptocurrency” and, separately, “What is Donald Trump’s stance on cryptocurrency,” Copilot offers poignant, in-depth answers.