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PRESS RELEASE: EPIC Files Complaint Urging the FTC to Investigate OpenAI’s GPTs and Third-Party APIs – EPIC – Electronic Privacy Information Center
webEPIC's FTC complaint against OpenAI highlights regulatory accountability concerns around AI safety, privacy, and consumer harm from generative AI products and third-party API integrations.
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EPIC filed a complaint with the FTC urging investigation of OpenAI for unsafe security, privacy, and business practices in its generative AI products. The complaint highlights failures to meet responsible AI standards, including Executive Order 14110 and the AI Bill of Rights Blueprint. It specifically calls attention to harms amplified by third-party API integrations in high-risk sectors like real estate and financial services.
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- •EPIC alleges OpenAI has failed to demonstrate compliance with responsible AI standards including EO 14110 and the White House AI Bill of Rights Blueprint.
- •The complaint focuses on third-party API integrations that exacerbate privacy, data protection, and human rights concerns.
- •OpenAI products are being deployed in high-risk industries (real estate, financial services) where errors can cause serious consumer harm.
- •EPIC argues OpenAI has collected vast consumer data and produced unsafe AI models without delivering commensurate consumer benefits.
- •The complaint builds on prior FTC investigations into OpenAI's product development and business practices.
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PRESS RELEASE: EPIC Files Complaint Urging the FTC to Investigate OpenAI’s GPTs and Third-Party APIs
October 29, 2024
In a complaint filed today , EPIC called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate OpenAI for failing to meet established public policy standards for responsible AI use and development, offering products with unsafe security, privacy, and business practices, perpetuating unfair and deceptive practices in their product development and release, and causing significant consumer harm.
OpenAI develops, operates, and markets generative AI products to millions of consumers and third-party AI deployers. While it claims to advance “safe and beneficial” AI, it has utterly failed to show evidence that its products meet even the few responsible development and use standards put forth, including Executive Order 14110 on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of AI and the White House’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. With no evidence of responsible development on display and increasingly serious examples of harms perpetuated by its products, EPIC has filed this complaint calling for an investigation.
“The generative AI boom promised that it could create all kinds of benefits to society. Thus far, it has created a mass data-stealing regime and countless privacy, human rights, data security, and accuracy problems. The hypothetical benefits do not outweigh the actual harms and OpenAI must be accountable for what their product is actually doing – not what they hope it will do,” said Calli Schroeder, Senior Counsel, Global Privacy Counsel, and lead of the AI and Human Rights Project at EPIC.
The complaint builds on the FTC’s previously launched investigations into OpenAI’s product development, use, and business practices by calling attention to OpenAI’s third-party API integrations and partnerships and how these exacerbate existing privacy, data protection, and human rights concerns. Further, OpenAI products are now being integrated into high-risk industries like real estate and financial services where the consequences of incorrect or biased technology processing can be devastating for consumers.
As the complaint states, “OpenAI has collected scores of consumer data and produced unsafe AI models in order to enrich itself—without passing on any noticeable benefits to consumers or competition that would not remain with more protective data collection, AI development, and risk management practices in place.”
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