ChatGPT renders election-related political images only in cartoon style ahead of US midterms

Ahead of next week's US midterm elections, ChatGPT refuses photorealistic political imagery and returns images depicting election interference or discouraging voting only in a cartoon style. Requests for photorealism are ignored.

• ChatGPT blocks photorealistic political deepfakes ahead of US midterms
• Election-related images are returned only in cartoon style
• Photorealism requests for political prompts are ignored