FTC investigates OpenAI over inaccurate information from ChatGPT

…”This latest FTC nastygram to a tech co (this one to OpenAI) reflects the short-term reality of #AI regulation in the US: We’ll witness a lot of jawboning and regulation-by-intimidation through implicit threats of undefined action,” tweeted Adam Thierer, an innovation policy analyst at the R Street Institute, explaining that by “nastygram” he means “a letter sent by a policymaker or agency that asks probing questions backed by implicit threats of undefined future regulatory action. It’s a long-standing agency practice, but one that the FTC is using more regularly to influence firm decisions…”