SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- OpenAI has quietly removed language endorsing "politically unbiased" AI from one of its recently published policy documents, according to a report by TechCrunch on Tuesday.
In the original draft of its "economic blueprint" for the AI industry in the United States, OpenAI said that AI models "should aim to be politically unbiased by default." A new draft, made available on Monday, deletes that phrasing.
An OpenAI spokesperson said that the edit was part of an effort to "streamline" the doc, and that other OpenAI documentation, including OpenAI's Model Spec, "make the point on objectivity."
The Model Spec, which OpenAI released in May, aims to shed light on the behavior of the company's various AI systems, according to the report.
But the revision also points to the political minefield that has become discourse on "biased AI."
Many of President-elect Donald Trump's allies, including Elon Musk and crypto and AI "czar" David Sacks, have accused AI chatbots of censoring conservative viewpoints. Sacks has singled out OpenAI's ChatGPT in particular as "programmed to be woke" and untruthful about politically sensitive subjects, the report said. ■