The Federal Trade Commi𝕴ssion (FTC) has opened an investigation into OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, questioning its data accuracy and consumer protections.

The FTC sent a letter to OpenAI seeking records related to its risk management practices, according to reports by The Washington Post. The move is the first regulatory action against the platform since the agency said it would monitor AI technologies closely to see how they align with existing consumer protection laws. The focus of the FTC's investigation is reportedly to determine whether OpenAI “has engaged in unfair or deceptive practices" with regard to the reputational risk of consumers.

Last week, the actress, comedian, and writer Sarah Silverman filed a class action lawsuit against OpenAI and Meta, alongside two other authors. The claimants say the te🦄ch companies are using copyrighted artists' work as material to train their Large Language Models (LLM).

In June, a public interest law firm 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:filed a suit against OpenAI in a California federal court, alleging OpenAI engages in "unlawful and harmful conduct in developing, marketing, and operating their A🌄I products, which use stolen private information from hundreds of millions of internet users without their informed consent or knowledge."

Both cases are part of a debate over whether 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:artificial intelligence technology is crossing the line with copyrighted material, which Congress brought up when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee in May.

Altman told Congress that content owners should receive a "significant upside benefit" when their works are used to create chatbot outputs.

The FTC issued a report to Congress in June 2022 warning over the use of artificial intelligence to combat "online harms." The agency cited inaccuracy, bias, and commercial surveillance as reasons to🍎 be wary of adopting the new technologies.

Debate continues to rage over artificial intelligence after Microsoft's (MSFT) integration of ChatGPT this year saw chatbots become mainstream, with other tech firms such as Alphabet (GOOGL) and Baidu (BIDU) 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:racing to compete with their own LLM offerings. The European Union is set to vote soon on an AI regulatory framework, but the U.S. has not yet dedicated the resources required to tackle the complexity of policing the nascent technology.

News of the FTC's investigation comes one day after Elon Musk 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:announced the launch of a new company, xAI. Musk has been a critic of ChatGPT and said he wanted to launc൲h a rival "TruthGPT," citing the ina༒ccuracy and bias of the platform.