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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. AndrewKemendo · · focus · HN ↗
      This is just how business is done with the government nothing new here or even hidden really.

      Should this be the way it happens? No

      Is it? Yes

      The main thing I’ve seen recently is people learning how the world works then being shocked when it’s nothing like what is sold publicly

      1. e3dd · · focus · HN ↗
        Erm this is reality period forget about the govt.

        Do you do things without expecting something of benefit in return e.g. work?

        Humans are conditioned to be like this. Govt indeed cares what you can do to extend its power and reach.

        Not rocket science.

        Thats why Ive never understood people who resist - you will be far better off in assisting and getting ahead of it to try and shape it. Then you MAY have a chance. Resisting it? Youre just delaying the inevitable I&#x27;m afraid. Funniest part is a lot of these resistors assist people like Zuck. Absolutely hilarious.

        If people truly had a backbone the labour class wouldn&#x27;t so easily get rag-dolled but they do. Putting your freedom and well-being on the line takes a lot - you need to lose everything to do that.

        1. AndrewKemendo · · focus · HN ↗
          Don’t forget the part where massive swaths of people who won’t risk anything at all, sneer at those that lost it all, because they aren’t perfectly aligned on some pet topic.
          1. e3dd · · focus · HN ↗
            I agree. Yes.

            Btw I&#x27;ve already accepted my role as an assister. Haters come at me. See you on the other side!

            I&#x27;ve long accepted that people by-on-large cannot be helped, western society has knowledge and understanding in abundance and yet... they lack self-control and self-respect. They need someone to instill it in them.

            Peter Thiel&#x27;s recent remarks on being evil is better than being bad captures this reality of life quite well.

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