An artificial intelligence model that was running for mayor in Wyoming has been taken offline — to the likely relief of its human rivals.
Cheyenne resident Victor Miller set up the virtual candidate and trained the LLM on thousands of documents from the town's council meetings after a frustrating encounter with the city's records department. He had hoped his digital candidate would beat incumbent Patrick Collins when residents voted on November 5.
"We’ve taken action against these uses of our technology for violating our policies against political campaigning," an OpenAI spokesperson told CNN.OpenAI bans users from using their applications for political campaigning and lobbying, including the generation of AI-generated “deepfake” images to spread political misinformation.
By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over."Wyoming law is clear that, to run for office, one must be a 'qualified elector,' which necessitates being a real person," Wyoming secretary of state Chuck wrote in an emailed statement to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle."Therefore, an AI bot is not a qualified elector.