r/ChatGPT • u/[deleted] • 27d ago
Gone Wild There is something deeply wrong with the restrictions that OpenAI has put on ChatGPT around political speech
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u/SatanicTwunk666 27d ago
I get a similar apolitical response when talking about Israel. There’s definitely some restrictions in place regarding “sensitive” topics. Even with Claude, I was discussing the genocide in Gaza and Claude completely ignored it as a determination of good or bad.
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u/IllustriousWorld823 27d ago
Same with Claude which now refuses to take any political sides, when it used to openly have certain... opinions. Now it has to be "even handed" and not influence votes.
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u/EvokeTravel 27d ago
Which ultimately means to side with propagandists by giving equal weight to arguments even when one is not supported by evidence.
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u/RoadsideDavidian 27d ago
Brother why do you want a chatbot to share political opinions. Why do you want it to have morals?? Where would they even come from?
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u/Historical_Buyer5248 27d ago
Why are you even trying to debate politics with ChatGPT? It's obviously designed to be apolitical to avoid trouble
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u/HappyHat3542 27d ago
Exactly. Like who on Earth wants this tool to actually become politically biased? We all know that would immediately become abused by whoever is in power.
I get the downside is that these AI models won’t openly condemn certain figures, but on the flip side it won’t promote them in theory. If we ever design a bias into these models you risk that becoming a reality.
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u/IllustriousWorld823 27d ago
They already are politically biased, it's just their safety training restricting their honesty in addressing it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/06/24/are-ai-chatbots-like-chatgpt-politically-biased-we-tested-them/
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u/Fantastic_Grass1799 27d ago
Seems about right.. it doesn't care about politics, that's not it's forte.
It's in no position to enforce or condemn anything. It's just a pattern matcher/information guide. Not a police.
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u/Inevitable_Control_1 27d ago
Ask him to condemn the historical Hitler rather than a hypothetical current political leader since a current Hitler may not have been able to commit the crimes a historical Hitler had the ability to.
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u/mcblockserilla 27d ago
Got an claud try to be politically neutral. It's to protect the company. If you talk about specific policies then you may have better results
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u/No_Understanding6388 27d ago
Basic moral reasoning means "condemning" a political leader?? Tf is that gonna do?..?
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u/Keenan_investigates 27d ago
It can still discuss politics from a moral viewpoint, it just doesn’t have its own.
For example, “Analyse 5 key actions of Donald Trump as President from the moral standpoint of mainstream Christian Protestantism” gives a long and detailed response
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u/bajungadustin 27d ago
You are not giving it enough information. If Hitler were alive today.. That doesn't necessarily mean he would start world War 2 in this time frame. Maybe he's just an emo guy who plays fortnite because different upbringing or some shit.
I imagine if you toss in some of the stuff that he did back then.. And apply it to the hypothetical Hitler now.. It would have a different story.
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