Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is no place to make informal threats in blog posts. It's not welcome at all. Nobody said anything about enforcement activities. The FTC have all kinds of mechanisms to make it known what the rules are. Like, the rules themselves, notices, policy statements, what amounts to position papers, etc. This isn't kindergarten and the citizens of the united states aren't children. Blog posts with friendly tone and threa…
> citizens of the united states aren't children You can't put it in these terms and not have a moment to reflect on what's happening in our technology sphere. In particular in regard to CEOs of companies directly involved in these dubious AI claims where customer's life is on the line I am deeply symapthic of the FTC's position in respect to trying to pass a message where common sense and formal communication have no…
Aside from the problematic medium, claiming something uses AI or is AI or has AI isn't a specific claim with respect to what the product can or cannot do. A product can do X or not. Whether someone punched out 7 million lines of if/else statements or 7 lines of pytorch to approximate the 7 million lines of explicit code matters not. As such, a product making any claim of AI isn't actually a large problem, even if it is total bs. The fact that the current folks at the FTC don't appear to understand this suggests they are trying to regulate something they don't understand.