U.S. Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter raised questions on Friday concerning the status of an artificial intelligence chatbot complaint in opposition to Snap that the company referred to the Department of Justice earlier this 12 months.
In January, the FTC introduced that it might refer a personal complaint relating to allegations that Snap’s My AI chatbot posed potential “risks and harms” to younger customers and stated it might refer the go well with to the DOJ “in the public interest.”
“We don’t know what has happened to that complaint,” Slaughter stated on CNBC’s ‘The Exchange.” “The public doesn’t know what has occurred to that complaint, and that is the sort of factor that I feel folks deserve solutions on.”
Snap’s My AI chatbot, which debuted in 2023, is powered by large language models from OpenAI and Google and has drawn scrutiny for problematic responses.
The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Snap declined to comment.
Slaugther’s comments came a day after President Donald Trump held a White House dinner with several tech executives, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook.
“The president is internet hosting Big Tech CEOs within the White House whilst we’re studying about really horrifying studies of chatbots participating with babies,” she said.
Trump has been attempting to remove Slaughter from her FTC position, but earlier this week, U.S. appeals court allowed her to maintain her role.
On Thursday, the president asked the Supreme Court to allow him to fire her from the post.
FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, who was selected by Trump to lead the commission, publicly opposed the complaint against Snap in January, prior to succeeding Lina Khan at the helm.
At the time, he said he would “launch a extra detailed assertion about this affront to the Constitution and the rule of regulation” if the DOJ have been to ultimately file a complaint.
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