FTC Launches ‘Expansive’ OpenAI Probe In Preemptive Strike
"I'm with the government, and I'm here to help." "Help investigate you, that is."
The FTC is coming for the robots before they come for us. Call it a preemptive strike on Skynet. I'm just joking. Sort of.
Earlier this week, OpenAI received a 20-page letter from the agency, containing dozens of questions about the methods the company employs to train its A.I. models, including the technology behind ChatGPT. The FTC is also interested in OpenAI's protocols for protecting personal data.
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I just had a small scare about an hour ago. I submitted a brief paragraph about owls in response to a post on a moderated chat board. Within 30 seconds I got a note denying the post and offering me an acceptable rewrite. The rewrite was, in fact, excellent. I couldn’t object to a single word. Now, I know the moderator didn’t create that rewrite, AI did. It was very scary good. If that’s our future I have very mixed emotions. The moderator robot offered me the opportunity to accept their version or try again. What if they hadn’t asked and it hadn’t been a very good substitute?
So far I have been using ChatGPT to help with programming. I have notice that if the issue is simple it responds quickly with code that does work. But in real life the issues tend to be complex, on complex issues it can take 7 or 8 tries to create code that works. But to be fair the process can take a couple of hours, where if I queried a help website it could take a over a week before the moderator responds correctly. So ChatGPT is quicker. It still amazes me that I can ask it a regular question and it can spit out code in 30 seconds.
“ Lina Khan, meanwhile, is facing questions from House Republicans curious as to her managerial competence.” And, good. Hopefully some Democrats are curious as well. Because she is genuinely incompetent as an M&A antitrust enforcer. Outrageous government overreach in attempting to apply misguided and discredited theories. The Activision opinion smack down was epic. And to then lose the appeal for the injunction.
She shouldn’t be in charge of ordering the cookie tray for the monthly management meeting let alone regulating AI.
I hope her probe does not discourage hackers from using AI:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wormgpt-black-hat-llm?utm_source=notification
Interesting such a letter has not gone to other major generative AI players. Is there a deep game here, where Altman wants to shape coming AI restrictions by offering OpenAI as the guinea pig?