FTC Removes Lina Khan-era Post on Risks of AI and Open Source

The Federal Trade Commission has removed three blog posts from Lina Khan-era that tells about Open-Source AI and AI Risk for consumers, accordingly Cable reportSee rank-.

One post, titled “on the Open-Balanced Foundation model,” was published on July 10, 2024. The second, published by Kamana, “AI and the risk of consumer harm.” The post notes the FTC is “taking note of AI for what it perceives to be a dangerous world – from covering commercial surveillance to protecting against illegal discrimination.”

TechCrunch has reached out to the FTC to learn why the post was taken down. Khan declined to comment.

The removals are part of a broader pattern under the Trump administration, which has begun issuing executive orders to direct federal agencies to remove or alter the number of government employees.

After the inauguration, so did Trump installed a new head From the FTC and removed several FTC Commissioners, installed leadership that focused more on Khan’s aggressive antitrust antitrust agenda and more on the deregulation of big technology. In September, New FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson submitted Recommendations to remove or modify anticompetitive regulations throughout the federal government.

The blog was recently taken down by the FTC, which focuses on harming consumers, it doesn’t seem like it The Trump administration’s plan of actionSee rank-. The plan has reduced the focus on safety and guardrails, preferring rapid growth and competition with China. However, the Trump administration has been vocal about the open initiative.

Former FTC Director of Public Affairs Douglas Farrar told TechCrunch: “I was surprised to see Andrew Ferguson led the FTC to be out of touch with the Trump White House in the market.”

This is not the first time that the FTC Administration has removed content. In March, Reported cable If the FTC removes around 300 posts related to AI, consumer protection, and the agency’s lawsuits against tech companies like Amazon and Microsoft.

While hundreds of blog posts from Khan’s descendants and before remain in the agency Technology Blog OfficeFTC Ferguson has not been able to publish a post on the site, despite the rush of the AI ​​race, which has produced some business mergers and acquisitions – including hires – that can be seen as anti-competitive.

Blog FTC Culling under the trumpet removal or modification of thousands of Web pages and databets, especially content related to various; Equity, and includes; Gender Identity; Public health; and environmental policy. For example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released data on topics ranging from chronic medical conditions to HIV/AIDS. The Department of Justice has dismissed the study of hate crimes, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hasApen down the national climate assessment that the congress said Report.

Removing content – including blog posts from the FTC – could violate the Federal Records Act, which requires Federal Agencies to properly maintain records of government activities, and the Open Data Act, and the data “by default.

The Biden Administration’s FTC leadership placed a warning label on content published during the previous administration that it disagreed with, according to the wire.