Of course the blog post fails to mention how a bot using the same API masqueraded as a democratic presidential candidate for months but at least people are beginning to develop some awareness on the matter of AI chat bots. Someone should definitely resurface this research when Buttigieg runs again in 2024/2028.
I absolutely believe Butigeg is running on GPT-2 with a fairly limited number of parameters. I believe they cant fit that many GPUs in his chasis, and it wasn't feasible to have him be connected to a remote server to run him...