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FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks

210 points · 160 comments · dgellow

  1. Cipater · · focus · HN ↗
    They just need to hire the right lobbyists, get a meeting at the White House, agree on the terms and call it a settlement.

    And if the FTC chair is not agreeable, they will be threatened by said lobbyists and eventually be fired.

    If this sounds far-fetched, it is exactly what happened to Gail Slater, then-head of the DOJ's antitrust division and her deputies in 2025 over HPE’s bid to acquire Juniper.

    Wall Street Journal archive link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;IMer9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;IMer9

    1. GrinningFool · · focus · HN ↗
      Perhaps once they all agree to calling it &quot;superintelligence&quot;, these troubles will go away.
      1. Zambyte · · focus · HN ↗
        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;america.gov" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;america.gov isn&#x27;t even calling artificial intelligence &quot;super intelligence&quot;. Trump just says words. People should stop trying to find meaning in them.
        1. matthewdgreen · · focus · HN ↗
          My colleagues at NIST just got a memo directing them to refer to AI as “SI” so it does seem to be filtering down to the agencies. This is a problem because “SI” is also a classification marking.
          1. lovich · · focus · HN ↗
            Can’t make money off of Slovenian domains without the rebrand. That’s obviously going to take precedence for the king.
          2. triceratops · · focus · HN ↗
            &gt; This is a problem because “SI” is also a classification marking

            Good thing the US uses the imperial system one less source of confusion &#x2F;s

            1. rootusrootus · · focus · HN ↗
              I know you said &#x2F;s but I&#x27;m feeling all serious or something this morning, so ...

              - The US government&#x27;s official policy is metric (and has been for something like 50 years now).

              - The population uses a mix of metric and US customary units, not imperial.

              UK is kinda similar, I suppose, but their typical usage of metric&#x2F;imperial tilts more heavily in favor of metric. I wonder how many other countries are also still doing mixed measurement systems at this point?

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          3. CodeWriter23 · · focus · HN ↗
            &gt; This is a problem because “SI” is also a classification marking.

            They can just make up another name to redefine this classification which people are already used to. How about SIBISI? This follows the transformation they instituted a&#x27;la kilobyte -&gt; kibibyte.

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