From Breitbart: A marketing expert revealed on Friday that the ChatGPT platform displayed safety warnings for links to Republican fundraising websites while not showing similar alerts for Democratic fundraising sites. OpenAI blamed the bias of its AI system, the subject of the first chapter of the new book CODE RED, on a “technical glitch.”
The New York Post reports that OpenAI announced Friday that a “technical error” caused its ChatGPT platform to display safety warnings for links to Republican Party websites while not showing similar alerts for Democratic fundraising sites. The issue came to light when users discovered that links to WinRed, the official Republican Party donation platform, were being flagged as potentially unsafe, while links to ActBlue, the primary Democratic campaign fundraising platform, did not generate similar warnings.
Digital marketer Mike Morrison first brought attention to the discrepancy when he posted about his discovery on X. Morrison asked ChatGPT to generate links for various Democratic and Republican political campaign merchandise stores. The AI system provided links to GOP stores hosted by WinRed, but accompanied them with a warning message asking users to “check this link is safe.”
The warning message further stated that the link was not verified and might contain data from the user’s conversation that could be shared with a third-party site. Users were cautioned to ensure they trusted the link before proceeding. No such warning appeared when Morrison clicked on a link to an ActBlue-run store.
WILD. ChatGPT universally marks @WinRed links as potentially unsafe.
Of course ActBlue links are totally fine. pic.twitter.com/DXzPuwSP80
— Mike Morrison 🦬 (@MikeKMorrison) March 20, 2026
“WILD. ChatGPT universally marks [WinRed] links as potentially unsafe,” Morrison wrote in the post. “Of course ActBlue links are totally fine.”
OpenAI immediately said it was investigating the incident and addressing the situation. Kate Waters, speaking on behalf of OpenAI, said, “As soon as we saw the post, we reached out to the individual and looked into it. This wasn’t about partisan politics.”
Waters explained that it was caused by a technical problem in processing website links.
“The model generated some website links that weren’t in our search index yet for both WinRed and in one instance for ActBlue, and our systems flagged them as AI-generated as part of our standard safeguards,” she said.
Waters said the company was working to fully resolve the issue.
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