Fresh off another loss in court and a grilling from the House Judiciary Committee, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is blundering into yet another tech-panic boondoggle. The agency "has opened an expansive investigation into OpenAI, probing whether the maker of the popular ChatGPT bot has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reputations and data at risk," The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
The FTC has ordered OpenAI to turn over documents and records related to its artificial intelligence (A.I.) models. "The FTC will use information You provide in response…for the purpose of investigating violations of the laws the FTC enforces," notes the agency's 20-page demand letter.
