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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. hedora · · focus · HN ↗
      Things are more corrupt in the US now. That would have worked in Trump 1.0.

      I predict they’ll be forced to install an “ombudsman” in the data cleaning &#x2F; training team, so Trump can inject propaganda and filter out science. (As has been done to many US news outlets already).

      Also, they will somehow each put &gt;&gt; $1B into his personal checking account, and hope presidential pardons cover bribing the president after the next few elections.

      1. theoreticalmal · · focus · HN ↗
        I assume you’ll keep the same disdain when the ombudsman is replaced by the democrats in two years and continues the same work with new talking points?
        1. jmye · · focus · HN ↗

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