National Review Reports: The dazzlingly advanced algorithms on offer from ChatGPT present near-infinite possibilities: High-school or college essays composed entirely by an artificial bot, a new level of in-depth, comprehensive responses to queries that could make search engines like Google obsolete, and so on. (ChatGPT is reportedly “in funding talks that would value” the software at $29 billion.) But like any man-made tool, the software’s power is morally neutral — just as it could conquer new frontiers of progress, it could easily empower and facilitate the dystopian designs of bad actors.

That’s why its built-in ideological bias that I happened upon last night is so concerning. It’s not clear if this was characteristic of ChatGPT from the outset, or if it’s a recent reform to the algorithm, but it appears that the crackdowns on “misinformation” that we’ve seen across technology platforms in recent years — which often veer into more brazen efforts to suppress or silence viewpoints that dissent from progressive orthodoxy — is now a feature of ChatGPT, too. Given the expansive power over the information ecosystem that AI could soon wield, that presents a profound threat to the cause of free speech and thought in the digital sphere.

I first began experimenting with just how far ChatGPT’s bias goes when I came across this tweet from the Daily Wire’s Tim Meads: