Global Outlook

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 tol...