The RFK Jr. campaign’s chatbot had previously affirmed Kennedy’s promotion of conspiracy theories, and appeared to circumvent OpenAI’s ban on political use.
Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. first announced his longshot presidential bid, his campaign has leaned into a variety of unorthodox digital strategies. He’s appeared on countless podcasts and collaborated with popular influencers to reach voters online. More recently, the Kennedy campaign has experimented with an AI chatbot that used an apparent loophole to get around OpenAI’s restrictions on political use.
reporting found that rather than tapping into OpenAI directly, the Kennedy campaign chatbot used Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service through a third-party provider called LiveChatAI. Azure OpenAI Service lets customers access OpenAI models while adding extra security and compliance features. Because neither Microsoft nor LiveChatAI disallows campaigns from using their products, the chatbot was able to circumvent OpenAI’s ban. On Friday, Microsoft said that the bot was not in violation of its rules.
asked the chatbot how to register to vote, it linked to a page on Kennedy’s website detailing how someone could register for his “We the People Party” in the state of California; the reporters who gave the prompt live in New York and Alabama. A recent report from Proof News showed that five of the most popular large language models—including OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s Llama 2, and Google’s Gemini—delivered inaccurate responses to questions related to voting more than half of the time.
on Thursday that the company didn’t “have any indication” that the Kennedy campaign chatbot was directly building on its services, but suggested that LiveChatAI might be using one of its models through Microsoft’s services. Since 2019, Microsoft has reportedly invested more than $13 billion into OpenAI. OpenAI’s ChatGPT models have since been integrated into Microsoft’s Bing search engine and the company’s Office 365 Copilot.
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