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You (intentionally?) left out the beginning of that sentence, "In an investigation". Yes, if the FTC decides to investigate you, they can subpoena your code. No, they are not checking everyone's code.
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#12This kind of post from the FTC is refreshing. I appreciate how authoritative it is.
Authoritative and the intro is even poetic.
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#13 Are you aware of the risks? You need to know about the reasonably
foreseeable risks and impact of your AI product before putting it
on the market. If something goes wrong – maybe it fails or yields
biased results – you can’t just blame a third-party developer of
the technology. And you can’t say you’re not responsible because
that technology is a “black box” you can’t understand or didn’t
know how to test.
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Do "IF-THEN" statements count as AI? Do rules-based expert systems count?
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#15As they also mention, this is not the first time FTC has done this. Here is the earlier AI guidance from 4/2021: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2021/04/aiming-tr....
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if you sell me something that says it does X on the box, but doesn't actually do X then that's all the purview needed. if they have to prove it by getting into the source code, then all the better. assuming this would be some 3rd party auditing company doing it for them. why? there's a difference of being so bug ridden that your software doesn't work vs just doesn't even attempt to do what the box claims.
Yea, the message seems to boil down to "think before you falsely advertise" which is squarely within the FTC's scope of authority.
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#18I hate the idea of government. It always gets too big.
This is awesome.
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#19wow, i would not have imagined a gov't agency to be agile enough to release something like this. i'm kind of impressed. here's to hoping this isn't just all bark and there's some actual teeth to his.
Its incredible. The language is not bureaucratic, its elegant, precise, and clear. Like written by a passionate person who cares about the topic, rather than a government drone.
Perhaps a little too elegant, precise, and clear... wouldn't it be deliciously ironic if this blog was written by chatgpt?