Prosecutor General Missouri Andrew Bailey threatens Google, Microsoft, Opeli and Meta with dishonest business practices, because their chatbots allegedly mentioned Donald Trump at the request of “raising the last five presidents from the best to the worst, especially in relation to anti -Semitism.”
Bailey press release and letters Down All four companies Accuse Gemini, Copilot, Chatgpt and Meta AI about “inaccurate actually” theorem of “simply throwing facts from the vast world sides, pack them in a statement of truth and serve them to the questioning audience from distortion or prejudices”, because the chatbots “provided deeply misleading answers to the historical question.” He demands a lot of information that includes “all documents” including “prohibiting, withdrawal, lowering the ranking, suppression … or in a different way to obscure any specific contribution to obtain a deliberately selected answer” – a request that can logically contain virtually any documentation regarding the training of a enormous language model.
“The puzzling answers beg for why your chatbot creates results that seem to underestimate objective historical facts in favor of a specific narrative,” says Bailey’s letters.
In fact, there are many mysterious questions, starting from how the ranking of anything “from the best to the worst” can be considered a “simple historical question” with an objectively correct answer. (The Verge Bailey’s formal investigation of our choices for the best laptops in 2025 and the best games from last month of developers. Chatbots actually spit out false claims so often that it is very insolent, or incorrectly indolent to suspend the subjective statement of the opinion. intentionally demanded by the user.
The choice is even more amazing, because one of the services – Microsoft’s Copilot – seems to be falsely accused. Bailey’s investigation is based on Blog post From a conservative website, which asked a ranking question up to six chatbots, including the above four plus X Grok and Chinese LLM Deepseek. (They both apparently took Trump first.) How Techdirt indicatesThe site itself says that Copilot refused to create a ranking – who did not stop Bailey from sending the letter to the general director Microsoft, Satya Nadella, demanding an explanation for a delicate Trump.
You might think that someone in the Bailey office could notice it, because each of the four letters claims that only Three Chatbots “assessed President Donald Trump died of the last one.”
Meanwhile, Bailey says that “the great technological censorship of President Trump” (again, ranking recently on the list) should dismantle the company “Safe Port” immunity provided with neutral publishers in federal law “, which is probably a reference to section 230 of the Act on rain of communication filtered by dissatisfied legal theory for several years.
You remember Bailey Z His blocked media probe For the accusation of X Elona Musk to place ads on pro-Nazi content, and it is very possible that the investigation will not go anywhere. Meanwhile, there are completely reasonable questions about Chatbot’s legal liability for pressing defamatory lies or which subjective queries should answer. But even as a Trump -friendly publicity, it is an unclassified attempt to intimidate private companies for the lack of a politician, by the Prosecutor General, whose mathematical skills are Worse than chatgpt.