--- title: Intellectual freedom by design | daily.dev description: OpenAI outlines its approach to building intellectual freedom into ChatGPT through three pillars: objectivity by default on politically and culturally... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/intellectual-freedom-by-design-fjbuwxgh2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Intellectual freedom by design | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI outlines its approach to building intellectual freedom into ChatGPT through three pillars: objectivity by default on politically and culturally... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/intellectual-freedom-by-design-fjbuwxgh2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fJBuwxGh2.png og:image:alt: Intellectual freedom by design og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Intellectual freedom by design **[OpenAI](https://daily.dev/sources/openai)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI outlines its approach to building intellectual freedom into ChatGPT through three pillars: objectivity by default on politically and culturally sensitive topics, user-customizable settings for tone and communication style, and ongoing efforts to evaluate and reduce political bias. The company references its publicly available Model Spec as the guiding document for these principles and notes it is developing new bias evaluation methods grounded in real-world usage patterns rather than traditional benchmark tests. Feedback sessions with civil society organizations across the political spectrum are also informing model behavior improvements. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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