ChatGPT blocked over 250,000 image generations of presidential candidates, OpenAI says

ChatGPT rejected over 250,000 AI image requests in the month leading up to Election Day according to a Friday blog post from OpenAI. 

Users tried to generate photos of President-elect Trump, Vice President Harris, Vice President-elect Vance, President Biden and Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.)

“We’ve applied safety measures to ChatGPT to refuse requests to generate images of real people, including politicians,” the company wrote. “These guardrails are especially important in an elections...