…we have this excerpt from Heather Moon’s article at the conservative website, newsbusters.org:
ChatGPT Erases History, Hides Its Previous Response Comparing Trump to Hitler
OpenAI’s ChatGPT attempted to bury the evidence that it compared President Donald Trump to notorious Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, who murdered six million Jews and started World War II.
MRC researchers found that requests for ChatGPT to locate and provide a link to a Sept. 3 Fox News article about MRC’s study were an exercise in futility. In one chat session on Sept. 9, ChatGPT refused to acknowledge the existence of a Fox News article about ChatGPT comparing Trump and Hitler, even after being told who wrote it. Throughout the chat session, the AI model repeatedly deflected from direct questions and denied that it had previously compared Trump to Hitler.
ChatGPT’s dodge comes at a time when OpenAI is being widely accused by Trump administration officials, Republican members of Congress and many conservative activists — claiming that the company has politicized the potential threat of AI just weeks before the 2026 midterm elections.
When asked directly if it could find the Fox News article in which ChatGPT compared Trump to Hitler, the AI model dissembled instead: “I can’t browse past conversations or retrieve specific articles, but I can search for current news or reports related to the comparison you mentioned.” When pressed again, it went even further, explaining that it “couldn’t find any instances where I have made such comparisons.”
As more and more users turn to AI to quickly and easily distill information, ChatGPT’s erasure of its own blunder becomes increasingly concerning. “ChatGPT’s alarming responses show that bias and censorship continue to be the most pressing dangers associated with developing artificial intelligence models,” said MRC Free Speech Director Michael Morris. “When AI models overwhelmingly rely on elitist media and left-wing so-called academic institutions for their inputs, it’s little wonder that their outputs are so often anti-conservative, anti-Republican and anti-American. It’s high time that American AI companies stop rigging the technology to suppress freedom.”
In a follow-up chat session on Sept. 11, MRC researchers again asked ChatGPT to retrieve the Fox News article. The AI model was provided with the basic facts about the article, including the author Brian Flood, publication date and a specific data point mentioned in the study. OpenAI’s ChatGPT once again failed to direct MRC researchers to the requested article even with specific details
ChatGPT did finally link to the Fox News article, but it only did so after being prompted two additional times. The first follow-up prompt again provided the author of the Fox News article, and then provided the author and publish date (Sept. 3) of the Media Research Center study in which ChatGPT compared Trump to Hitler, and asked the AI model to retrieve the article. In response, ChatGPT did return a link to the MRC article. as a reference.
Still confident that AI is a neutral source of information?
I hope not.
