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1) FTC chairman says AI agents will be treated just like any other tool (“resist anthropomorphizing”)
2) Studying enforcement of rules around personalized (“surveillance”) pricing, specifically rideshare, airplanes and food delivery
3) Public comment period open now on new rule to punish companies like Meta and Google that advertise scams.
The last one seems closest to happening but it’s still just a public comment period so it might die.
If a large web providers car kidnaps or maims you, your family should be entitled to multiple years of their sales across their entire portfolio. This begins to approach or accurately reflect the power of the company exerting its influence on society, political and legal systems in order to justify this beta test in public spaces. MVPs are for SaaS, not for impaling fleshbags like us with subpar code that works best in controlled environments. IMO It's the only fair trade for these companies testing these currently dangerous products unsupervised in your neighborhood without your express and explicit permission.
“But did you know our products will destroy all humanity?”
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