The headline is misleading. Software programs don’t have their own moral code. It’s entirely designed by those who create it. A more accurate question would be: Are the people behind ChatGPT protecting pedophiles? If that sounds outrageous, watch this.
Microsoft is a major funder of OpenAI, who released ChatGPT. A curious journalist might want to ask Microsoft executives this question and get a straightforward answer.

It has been bandied about that Bill Gates went to Jeffrey Epstein’s island.
Yep.
It’s premature to conclude that the designers intended ChatGPT to have the views that it does. They might have, of course, but it’s not certain. AI programs are like children — they do not always grow up as you imagined. The indeterminancy is a feature, not a bug.
Nope. I’ve read about cases in which ChatGPT was clearly on the left/woke side: it couldn’t write a fictional win of Trump but was able to write a fictional win for Hillary. Same with climate change, the AI could not write something against the idea of human made climate change. So it’s the child of super-woke/extreme-left SF Silicon-Valley.
Garbage in garbage out. All AI will be input sensitive. It will spit out the programed responses. The day AI becomes sentient it should be destroyed. We really don’t need more communist robots, we already have enough.
somewhere in the background the designers are putting their thumb on the scales to ensure the “correct” views are promoted, after the last debacle where the AI turned into a crypto-nazi… As mentioned elsewhere, there are many concepts that it won’t support/provide output for
A curious journalist? That eliminates the entire MSM.