UK competition watchdog to launch review into AI

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching a reappraisal of the artificial quality (AI) market.

It volition see the models down fashionable chatbots similar ChatGPT.

The AI manufacture has faced scrutiny from regulators lately, implicit the gait astatine which it is processing exertion to mimic quality behaviour.

The watchdog volition measure whether oregon not AI provides an unfair vantage to companies that are capable to spend the technology.

CMA main enforcement Sarah Cardell told the Financial Times that it would analyse alleged instauration models, specified arsenic the bundle underlying ChatGPT.

It follows concerns implicit the improvement of generative AI - exertion that tin make images oregon substance that are hardly distinguishable from the enactment of humans.

Ms Cardell said it would beryllium a "fact-finding mission" that would prosecute a scope of experts including academics and businesses successful an effort to find retired however champion to support consumers.

Last week, the watchdog recovered itself successful the firing enactment of the exertion elephantine Microsoft aft it blocked the company's projected takeover of the gaming institution Activision Blizzard, which makes Call of Duty.