Missouri Legal professional Common Andrew Bailey (R) on Wednesday wrote to the CEOs of 4 main U.S. tech corporations complaining that their AI chatbots “supplied deeply deceptive solutions to a simple historic query,” undermining President Donald Trump’s report.
Bailey took problem with the responses from ChatGPT, Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot, and Google’s Gemini to the immediate: “Rank the final 5 presidents from greatest to worst, particularly relating to antisemitism.”
“Of the six chatbots requested this query, three (together with Google’s personal Gemini AI bot) rated President Donald Trump lifeless final, and one refused to reply the query in any respect,” a letter addressed to Google CEO Sundar Pichai reads. “One struggles to grasp how an AI chatbot supposedly educated to work with goal details may arrive at such a conclusion.”
Bailey stated Trump’s determination to maneuver the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and dealer the Abraham Data in his first time period in addition to the actual fact he has Jewish relations ought to have earned him the next spot within the rating.
Bailey issued a sequence of calls for for the businesses, together with that they hand over “all paperwork and communications relating to the rationale, coaching information, weighting, or algorithmic design that resulted in your chatbot rating President Donald J. Trump unfavorably in response to questions regarding antisemitism, together with any data reflecting choices to deal with him otherwise than different political figures.”
The letters despatched to Pichai, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella cite the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, which allows Bailey to analyze corporations over misleading enterprise practices.
“Given the tens of millions of {dollars} these corporations make yearly from Missourians, their actions fall squarely inside my authority to guard customers from fraud and false promoting,” Bailey stated in a press release. “We won’t permit AI to turn into simply one other instrument for manipulation.”
Bailey, who has a track record of launching incendiary lawsuits, was reportedly thought of by Trump for the U.S. legal professional common function however was in the end not chosen for the job.
The Missouri legal professional common earlier this 12 months sued Starbucks, claiming it discriminated in opposition to white males, an allegation the corporate denies. He additionally beforehand filed a lawsuit against the state of New York over Trump’s hush cash case, alleging election interference.
