This obscure FTC proposal exposes the widening fight over what AI can say

AI companies are increasingly being pulled into a fight over who gets to decide what their systems can and can’t say. And a little-noticed Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposal is showing just how sprawling that fight has become. More than 300 public comments on the FTC’s draft policy reveal deep concern about the government’s role in policing AI-generated speech, and about the geopolitical stakes of doing so. The policy targets AI-generated speech that is “distorted by undisclosed ideologi...