The Center for AI and Digital Policy filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, accusing OpenAI—creator of the wildly popular ChatGPT—of violating section five of the FTC Act that targets deceptive and unfair practices.

“The FTC has a clear responsibility to investigate and prohibit unfair and deceptive trade practices,” the center’s founder and president, Marc Rotenberg, said in a statement. “We believe that the FTC should look closely at OpenAI and GPT-4.”

Not coincidentally, the FTC updated the act last month to include language directed at developers of artificial intelligence programs like OpenAI. The agency advised developers to avoid exaggerating their capabilities, making deceptive performance claims, or promising superiority over non-AI products without adequate proof.

The Center for AI and Digital Policy was established in 2020 under the Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation—founded by the former Massachusetts governor and failed Democratic U.S. presidential candidate—and is now a Washington, DC-based non-profit.

The FTC also warned developers to explore potential risks and impacts before launch.

“You need to know about the reasonably foreseeable risks and impact of your AI product before putting it on the market,” the agency wrote. “If something goes wrong—maybe it fails or yields biased results—you can’t just blame a third-party developer of the technology. And you can’t say you’re not respons

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