U.S. Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter raised questions connected Friday astir the presumption of an artificial intelligence chatbot ailment against Snap that the bureau referred to the Department of Justice earlier this year.
In January, the FTC announced that it would notation a non-public ailment regarding allegations that Snap's My AI chatbot posed imaginable "risks and harms" to young users and said it would notation the suit to the DOJ "in the nationalist interest."
"We don't cognize what has happened to that complaint," Slaughter said connected CNBC's 'The Exchange." "The nationalist does not cognize what has happened to that complaint, and that's the benignant of happening that I deliberation radical merit answers on."
Snap's My AI chatbot, which debuted successful 2023, is powered by ample connection models from OpenAI and Google and has drawn scrutiny for problematic responses.
The DOJ and Snap did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
Slaugther's comments came a time aft President Donald Trump held a White House meal with respective tech executives, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook.
"The president is hosting Big Tech CEOs successful the White House adjacent arsenic we're speechmaking astir genuinely horrifying reports of chatbots engaging with tiny children," she said.
Trump has been attempting to region Slaughter from her FTC position, but earlier this week, U.S. appeals tribunal allowed her to support her role.
On Thursday, the president asked the Supreme Court to let him to occurrence her from the post.
FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, who was selected by Trump to pb the commission, publically opposed the ailment against Snap successful January, anterior to succeeding Lina Khan astatine the helm.
At the time, helium said helium would "release a much elaborate connection astir this affront to the Constitution and the regularisation of law" if the DOJ were to yet record a complaint.
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