Controversy Surrounds OpenAI's GPT-4 Launch and Calls for AI Development Pause

The Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against OpenAI, alleging that the company's rollout of AI text generation tools has been "biased, deceptive, and a risk to public safety." The complaint points out potential threats from OpenAI's GPT-4 generative text model, including ways that it could produce malicious code and highly tailored propaganda, as well as ways that biased training data could result in baked-in stereotypes or unfair race and gender preferences. CAIDP seeks to hold OpenAI liable for violating Section 5 of the FTC Act and asks the FTC to halt any further commercial deployment of GPT models and require independent assessments of the models before any future rollouts.