The FTC’s AI Accuracy Statement Needs a Fact Check
Apolicy statement about accuracy should, at minimum, be precise. The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Proposed Policy Statement Concerning the Suppression of Accuracy in Artificial Intelligence Systems (AI Policy Statement) struggles with that assignment.
The International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) submitted comments in response to the FTC’s request for input, and this post is, in part, a digest of those comments. The statement gets some important things right, including the risks of excessive regulation and a patchwork of state laws. But it offers little concrete guidance on deception, leans on dubious assumptions about consumer expectations, wanders into constitutionally protected editorial judgments, and treats federal preemption as more wish than doctrine.
In other words, the AI Policy Statement needs considerable work. Then again, perhaps guiding enforcement was never quite the point.
But first, some context.