The US consumer protection agency FTC has launched an investigation into the company OpenAI. It should be investigated whether the successful use of ChatGPT causes harm to consumers, for example by generating untrue information or by improper handling of user data. The FTC informed the Microsoft-backed California startup about the investigation and sent a long list of questions.
The FTC, which is also a competition authority, is particularly interested in the protection of personal data used by the platform. FTC chief Lina Khan said during a congressional committee hearing on Wednesday that her agency was concerned about possible defamatory results from ChatGPT.
“We’ve heard reports of people’s personal information appearing in responses to someone else’s request,” Khan said. “We have heard of abusive, defamatory statements. Untrue things are coming up. We are concerned about this type of fraud and deceit,” she added.
ChatGPT creates texts using artificial intelligence (AI). Users can specify individual commands or phrases, which the system then independently supplements with huge amounts of data from the Internet. Critics counter that it’s unclear where ChatGPT and its competitors get their data from and how they handle it.
Source: Krone
I’m Ben Stock, a journalist and author at Today Times Live. I specialize in economic news and have been working in the news industry for over five years. My experience spans from local journalism to international business reporting. In my career I’ve had the opportunity to interview some of the world’s leading economists and financial experts, giving me an insight into global trends that is unique among journalists.
