Apologies for the link to The Register…
Dean Phillips is your classic ratfucking candidate, attempting to siphon off support from the incumbent to help their opponent. After a brief flare of hype before the (unofficial) NH primary, he seems to have flamed out by revealing his master plan too early.
Anyway, apparently some outfit called “Delphi” tried to create an AI version of him via a SuperPAC and got their OpenAI API access banned for their pains.
Quoth ElReg:
Not even the presence of Matt Krisiloff, a founding member of OpenAI, at the head of the PAC made a difference.
The pair have reportedly raised millions for We Deserve Better, driven in part by a $1 million donation from hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, who described his funding of the super PAC as “the largest investment I have ever made in someone running for office.”
So the same asshole who is combating “woke” and DEI is bankrolling Phillips, supposed to be the new Bernie. Got it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A ChatGPT-powered bot trained to mimic Congressman Dean Phillips (D-MN) - the long-shot challenger to Joe Biden - is dead before it had a chance to woo voters after OpenAI banned its developer for violating its T&Cs.
Dean.bot appeared online last week as the brainchild of a political action committee (PAC) with ties to Silicon Valley called “We Deserve Better” that reportedly formed in November of last year.
Unfortunately for We Deserve Better, the very nature of being a super PAC - which are allowed to raise unlimited funds for spending on campaign ads - means they ran afoul of several OpenAI usage policies.
Krisiloff was joined in the super PAC by Jed Somers, a former Barclays research analyst and current COO at Owner.com, an online platform for restaurant ordering designed as an alternative to sites like Doordash and GrubHub.
Delphi’s business model is built around “cloning” people so internet users can interact with their favorite celebrities - or so you can preserve all of grandma’s valuable insight from Facebook.
Most AI oracles available from Delphi appear to have instead been created by folks looking to market their expertise as business coaches or self-help gurus, with a smattering of US presidents and dead philosophers available.
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