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OpenAI Under US Regulator Probe for Potential Consumer Harm by ChatGPT

OpenAI Under US Regulator Probe for Potential Consumer Harm by ChatGPT

The United States Federal Trade Commission, an independent agency of the United States government, is looking into OpenAI to see if its massively popular ChatGPT app harms consumers by providing incorrect information and if its technology mishandles user data.

The United States probe was reportedly announced to Microsoft-backed OpenAI in a 20-page questionnaire, in which the firm is requested to describe events wherein users were wrongly disparaged. 

The Washington Post,  an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C, was the first to report on the US regulator's probe. The introduction of ChatGPT by OpenAI last November astounded the world by demonstrating the capabilities of large language models (or LLM), a type of artificial intelligence known as generative AI that can generate human-like content in just a second.

On Wednesday, FTC Chair Lina Khan spoke before a congressional committee. During the event, she did not mention the US investigation, however, she told lawmakers that her agency was concerned about ChatGPT's possibly libelous output.

ChatGPT received a lot of attention earlier this year for its rapid development, and it was dubbed the fastest-growing program. Within two months, it was projected that it had achieved over 100 million active monthly users.

ChatGPT makes the majority of its money by selling APIs and plugins to businesses. Nowadays big companies and businesses are willing to pay through the roof for OpenAI's plugins after seeing what GPT-4 and GPT3.5 are capable of.

According to reports, ChatGPT has encountered various difficulties, including inaccurate answers and the implementation of specific subject limits. These issues, together with the availability of alternative AI tools, may contribute to a drop in user numbers. Earlier, the Washington Post also reported about the decrease in number of users. 

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to be employed in a wide range of fields where intelligence is already used.


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