{"id":4106,"date":"2023-07-14T03:59:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T03:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/ftc-investigating-chatgpt-for-saying-harmful-things-about-people"},"modified":"2023-07-14T03:59:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T03:59:21","slug":"ftc-investigating-chatgpt-for-saying-harmful-things-about-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/ftc-investigating-chatgpt-for-saying-harmful-things-about-people\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Investigating ChatGPT for Saying Harmful Things About People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FTC Probe The Federal Trade Commission has started an extensive investigation into ChatGPT maker OpenAI to figure out whether it has violated consumer protection laws by undermining its users&#8217; reputations. The regulator fired off a 20-page demand, The Washington Post reports, requiring OpenAI to provide detailed descriptions of each time somebody had filed a complaint over its products making &#8220;false, misleading, disparaging or harmful&#8221; statements about users. The language model&#8217;s well-documented habit of spouting off falsehoods, the FTC alleges, may have unfairly caused &#8220;reputational harm&#8221; to consumers, thereby running afoul of consumer protection laws. It&#8217;s a notable escalation, representing one of the biggest regulatory challenges to the Sam Altman-led company to date \u2014\u00a0and one that has watchdogs on alert. &#8220;Every person deserves to know their information is safe and that AI products won&#8217;t harm or mislead them,&#8221; tweeted digital advocacy group the Center for AI and Digital Policy. Next Frontier Meanwhile, lawmakers are racing to come up with meaningful rules surrounding the use of AI-powered tools like ChatGPT. The FTC had already issued several warnings, with Charlotte Burrows, the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission calling the rapid rise of AI tech a &#8220;new civil rights frontier&#8221; earlier this year. Notably, the FTC is also asking OpenAI to provide any records related to a bug \u2014 which it acknowledged back in March \u2014 that allowed some users to see payment-related information, the WaPo reports. The FTC clearly has a watchful eye on the burgeoning AI industry, sending plenty of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ftc-openai-chatgpt-investigation\">FTC Investigating ChatGPT for Saying Harmful Things About People<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FTC Probe The Federal Trade Commission has started an extensive investigation into ChatGPT maker OpenAI to figure out whether it has violated consumer protection laws by undermining its users&#8217; reputations.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[357,300,120,114,187,3588,3589,113,2073,12,403,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}