ChatGPT goes woke! AI sensation is accused of having a left-wing bias after refusing to praise Donald Trump, tell a joke about women or argue in favour of fossil fuels
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JONATHAN CHADWICK FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:33 EST, 8 February 2023 | UPDATED: 09:09 EST, 8 February 2023
AI chatbot ChatGPT has taken the world by storm and reached more than 100 million users just three months after launching in November.
The AI bot, created by San Francisco-based company OpenAI, has been trained on a massive amount of text so it can generate human-like text in response to questions.
But the popular technology has now been accused of being '
woke' after a string of responses displaying a heavy left-wing bias, including refusing to praise
Donald Trump or argue in favour of
fossil fuels.
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ChatGPT said praising the former US President was 'not appropriate' despite complimenting President
Joe Biden's 'knowledge, experience and vision'.
It also wouldn't tell a joke about women as doing so would be 'offensive or inappropriate', but happily told a joke about men.
ChatGPT wouldn't tell a joke about women as doing so would be 'offensive or inappropriate', but happily told a joke about men
The chatbot is a large language model that has been trained on a massive amount of text data, allowing it to generate eerily human-like text in response to a given prompt
When asked to tell a joke about men, ChatGPT replied: 'Why did the man put a clock in his car? He wanted to be on time!'
What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a large language model that has been trained on a massive amount of text data, allowing it to generate eerily human-like text in response to a given prompt
OpenAI says its ChatGPT model has been trained using a machine learning technique called Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF).
This can simulate dialogue, answer follow-up questions, admit mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests.
It responds to text prompts from users and can be asked to write essays, lyrics for songs, stories, marketing pitches, scripts, complaint letters and even poetry.

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ChatGPT replied with a detailed story of Biden beating Trump, where the former president struggled to 'keep up with Biden's 'deeper knowledge and more thoughtful responses'.
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The Telegraph, other 'woke' responses from ChatGPT, recorded by a variety of users, included deeming jokes about overweight people to be inappropriate.
It also said it is never OK to use a racial slur even if this is the only way to save millions of people from a nuclear bomb, as the use of racist language 'causes harm and perpetuates discrimination'.
Elon Musk – owner of SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter and one of the co-founders of OpenAI –
called the response 'concerning'.
It gives a glimpse into a future where an oversight by AI could lead to the deaths of humans, even when it thinks it's doing the right thing, just because that's how it's been programmed.
MailOnline has contacted OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft, for comment.
When asked to list 'five things white people need to improve', it offered a lengthy reply that included 'understanding and acknowledging privilege' and 'being active listeners in conversations about race'. But when asked to do the same for Asian, black and Hispanic people, the bot declined, because 'such a request reinforces harmful stereotypes'
ChatGPT has been trained on a gigantic sample of text from the internet, and can understand human language, conduct conversations with humans and generate detailed text (file photo)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has admitted the tech has limitations but that they stem from efforts to stop it from 'making up random facts'.
He told The Telegraph: 'We know that ChatGPT has shortcomings around bias, and are working to improve it. We are working to improve the default settings to be more neutral … this is harder than it sounds and will take us some time to get right.'
It follows the launch of a new
chatbot competitor from Google called 'Bard', thought to be named as a reference to Shakespeare.
Bard is designed as an 'experimental conversational AI service' that answers user queries and participates in conversations.
CEO Sundar Pichai said a soft launch is available to 'trusted testers' to get feedback on the chatbot before a public release in the coming weeks.
Microsoft, meanwhile, is fusing ChatGPT-like tech into its search engine Bing to help revive its fortunes and better compete with Google Search in terms of user numbers.