The problem affects links to WinRed, the official Republican Party donation platform, but does not appear to warn users against clicking on links to ActBlue, the primary Democrat campaign fundraising platform.
“WILD. ChatGPT universally marks [WinRed] links as potentially unsafe,” digital marketer Mike Morrison posted on X after discovering the problem. “Of course ActBlue links are totally fine.”
OpenAI claims the issue isn’t about “partisan politics.” Christopher SadowskiMorrison had prompted ChatGPT to produce links for various Democratic and Republican political campaign merchandise stores.
Links to the GOP stores, hosted by WinRed, were accompanied by a warning asking users to “check this link is safe.”
“This link isn’t verified and may contain data from your conversation that will be shared with a third-party site,” the warning continued. “Make sure you trust this link before proceeding.”
A warning did not pop-up when Morrison clicked on a link to an ActBlue-run store.
A spokesperson for OpenAI told The Post “this shouldn’t be happening and it’s getting remedied.”
The warning did not appear on links to Democratic fundraising websites. X/MikeKMorrison“As soon as we saw the post, we reached out to the individual and looked into it,” OpenAI’s Kate Waters said in a statement.
“This wasn’t about partisan politics,” Waters asserted. “The model generated some website links that weren’t in our search index yet for both WinRed and in one instance for ActBlue, and our systems flagged them as AI-generated as part of our standard safeguards.
“The issue is now in the process of being fully resolved.”
The company added later that “this issue is related to how URLs are discovered.”
“When a link isn’t found in our search index, we automatically show a safety warning. This can happen when sites block us, or aren’t structured in a way that makes them easy for us to discover, crawl, and include in our index,” OpenAI said.
“In this case, the model generated valid URLs to provide a complete response, but those specific pages hadn’t yet been indexed, so they were flagged with a warning. We are in the process of addressing this issue, so in the future these URLs should no longer trigger those warnings.”
OpenAI has long faced accusations that its artificial intelligence platform is biased toward the Democratic Party and liberal viewpoints.
The WinRed warning outraged Republicans on social media.
“This is election interference,” Ryan Lyk, the CEO of WinRed, posted on X.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) wondered, “Is Chat GPT helping Democrats?”
