ChatGPT Rejected Over 250,000 Requests to Create Images of Presidential Candidates Before Election

OpenAI said it had applied safety measures to ChatGPT to refuse requests to generate images of real people.

The ChatGPT application logo on a smartphone screen (L) and the letters AI on a laptop screen in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on Nov. 23, 2023. Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images

OpenAI said on Friday that ChatGPT had denied more than 250,000 requests to generate images of U.S. presidential candidates ahead of the Nov. 5 general election.

The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot blocked requests to generate images of former President Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) in the month leading up to the Election Day, OpenAI said.