WASHINGTON:
The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy is requesting the US Federal Trade Commission to block OpenAI. From releasing new commercial versions of GPT-4. Which has impressed some users and upset others with its fast and human-like responses to queries.
The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy termed GPT-4 “biassed, misleading, and a risk to privacy and public safety”
In early March, California-based OpenAI, supported by Microsoft Corp., released the fourth version of its GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) AI programme, which has delighted users by engaging them in human-like dialogue, writing songs, and summarising large texts.
Elon Musk, artificial intelligence researchers, and business executives signed an open letter. The letter calls for a six-month moratorium on developing systems more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4, citing potential hazards to society.
The group complained that OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 lacks the FTC’s “transparent, explainable, fair and empirically sound while encouraging accountability” criteria.
One AI researcher found that OpenAI allowed users to “take over someone’s account. Read their conversation history, and access their billing information without them ever realising it,” the group alleged in its lawsuit.
Moreover, CAIDP president and longtime privacy advocate Marc Rotenberg was concerned that financial forces were forcing the corporation to release an unready product.
“Open AI is just not complying with the FTC rules and there is also concern that the product is unfair and deceptive,” said Rotenberg, one of more than 1,000 signatories to the letter seeking a halt to AI trials.
“Open an inquiry into OpenAI, enjoin further commercial releases of GPT-4, and ensure the implementation of appropriate guardrails to protect consumers, businesses, and the commercial marketplace,” the group requested the FTC.
