OpenAI faces a protest to FTC that pursues research and suspension of ChatGPT outs

March 31, 2023: OpenAI witnesses a recent protest to the Federal Trade Commission urging the agency to investigate the group and suspend its retail deployment of significant language models, which include its most delinquent iteration of the popular tool ChatGPT.

On Thursday, the complaint, made public by the nonprofit research group Center for AI and Digital Policy, accuses OpenAI of violating Section 5 of the FTC Act, prohibiting unfair and deceptive firms practices, and the agency’s guidance for AI products.

CAIDP calls GPT-4 “biased, deceptive, and a risk to privacy and public safety.” The group stated that the large language model fails to meet the agency’s standards for AI to be “transparent, fair, and empirically sound while fostering accountability.”

The firm wanted the FTC to require OpenAI to establish a way to assess GPT products before deployment independently.

It also wants the FTC to create a public incident reporting system for GPT-4 similar to its plans for reporting consumer fraud. It also wants the agency to take a rulemaking initiative to make standards for generative AI products.

On Wednesday, CAIDP’s president, Marc Rotenberg, signed onto a widely circulated open letter released that called for a pause of nearly six months on “the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.”

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI, and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak were among the different signatories.