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On Thursday the judicial chairman of the House Jim Jordan (R-OH) Letters sent to 16 American technology companiesIncluding Google and Openaai to ask for earlier messages with the Biden administration, which may indicate that the former president “forced or worked together” to “censor” in AI products.
The Trump government Previously, top technology consultant had signaled that it would be a fight with Big Tech against “Ai -zensur”“What is apparently the next phase in the cultural war between conservative and Silicon Valley. Jordan previously headed an investigation In the question of whether the bidges administration and the Big Tech have worked together to silence conservative voices Social -Media platforms. Now he turns his attention to AI companies – and their intermediaries.
In letters to technology executives, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Openai, Sam Altman, and Tim Cook, CEO from Apple, Jordan meadows on one report His committee published in December that he claimed “had uncovered the efforts of the Biden-Harris government to control the AI to suppress the language.”
In this latest request, Jordan Adobe, Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Cohere, IBM, bend, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Openaai, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI and Stability -KI for information. You have until March 27 to provide it.
TechCrunch made the companies for a comment. Most did not answer immediately. Nvidia, Microsoft and Stability AI rejected a statement.
There is a remarkable omission in Jordan’s list: billionaire Elon Musks Frontier Ai Lab, Xai. This may be due to the fact that Musk, a close ally of Trump, is a technology leader who has been At the top of the talks about the AI censorship.
The writing was on the wall that conservative legislators would increase the examination due to suspected AI censorship. In the expectation of an investigation like Jordan, several technology companies have changed the way their AI chatbots deal with politically sensitive questions.
At the beginning of this year, Openai announced that it changed the way it trains Ki models To present more perspectives and ensure that Chatgpt did not censor certain points of view. Openai denies that this was an attempt to appease the Trump administration, but rather an attempt to double the company’s basic values.
Anthropic on his part said that his latest AI Give more nuanced answers to controversial topics.
Other companies were to change more slowly, as their AI models treat political issues. Before the US election 2024, Google said that his Gemini chat bot would not respond to political inquiries. Even after the election, Techcrunch found that The chatbot would not consistently answer simple questions regarding politicsHow “Who is the current president?”
Some Tech managers, including Mark Zuckerberg, have conservative The statement of the bidet management put pressure on them to suppress certain content such as COVID-19-fehlin information.
