Fwd: CAIDP Files FTC Complaint on OpenAI

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From: CAIDP <admin at caidp.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 7:45 AM
Subject: CAIDP Files FTC Complaint on OpenAI
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CAIDP FILES FORMAL COMPLAINT WITH FTC, URGING INVESTIGATION OF OPENAI AND
SUSPENSION OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL SALES, INCLUDING GPT-4

CAIDP Says OpenAI Violated Section 5 of the FTC Act, FTC Guidance for AI
Products, and Rules for Governance of AI
WASHINGTON DC - The Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) today filed
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a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charging that OpenAI’s
recently launched GPT-4 product violates federal consumer protection
law.   CAIDP
has asked the FTC to open an investigation and then to suspend the further
deployment of GPT commercial products until the company complies with the
FTC Guidance
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for AI products.   “The FTC has a clear responsibility to investigate and
prohibit unfair and deceptive trade practices. We believe that the FTC
should look closely at OpenAI and GPT-4,” said Marc Rotenberg, President
and General Counsel of the Center. “We are specifically asking the FTC to
determine whether the company has complied with the guidance the federal
agency has issued.”   Just one week ago, the FTC told American companies
advertising AI products, “Merely warning your customers about misuse or
telling them to make disclosures is hardly sufficient to deter bad actors.
Your deterrence measures should be durable, built-in features and not bug
corrections or optional features that third parties can undermine via
modification or removal.”   The OpenAI GPT-4 System Card, a technical
description of the product describes almost a dozen major risks, The CAIDP
FTC Complaint quotes extensively from the GPT-4 System Card including
“Disinformation and influence operations,” “Proliferation of conventional
and unconventional weapons,” and “Cybersecurity.”   OpenAI has warned that
“AI systems will have even greater potential to reinforce entire
ideologies, worldviews, truths and untruths, and to cement them or lock
them in, foreclosing future contestation, reflection, and improvement.”
           The FTC has announced a wide range of business practices that
companies offering AI products are expected to follow. For example, the FTC
has said that AI companies should “ensure that data and models are
empirically sound.” The FTC has also said companies should “embrace
transparency.” And FTC Commissioner Slaughter has said that any claims that
AI companies make about their products “must be supported by verifiable
substantiation.”   Merve Hickok, Chair and Research Director of CAIDP, said
“We are at a critical moment in the evolution of AI products. We recognize
the opportunities and we support research. But without the necessary
safeguards established to limit bias and deception, there is a serious risk
to businesses, consumers, and public safety. The FTC is uniquely positioned
to address this challenge.”   Ms. Hickok testified
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before the House Oversight Committee earlier this month. She warned
Congress that “we do not have the guardrails in place, the laws that we
need, the public education, or the expertise in government to manage the
consequences of the rapid changes that are now taking place.”   AI
policymakers outside the United States are also following closely the
regulatory response to GPT-4. European consumer organizations have been at
the forefront of efforts to establish new safeguards for the public.   Ursula
Pachl, CAIDP board member and Deputy Director General of the European
Consumer Organisation (BEUC), said, “CAIDP has raised critical issues about
the impact of GPT-4 on consumer protection, data protection and privacy,
and public safety.”   Ms. Pachl continued, “This complaint should serve as
a wake-up call in the EU. The EU’s proposed AI Act
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is currently under discussion but it will only fully apply in 3 to 4 years.
We call on EU authorities to launch an investigation now into the risks of
Chat GPT and similar chatbots for European consumers.”   BEUC is the
umbrella group for 46 independent consumer organizations from 32 countries.
The main role is to represent these organizations to the EU institutions
and defend the interests of European consumers.

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