America First Legal Foundation urged Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to investigate what the group believes is an anticompetitive deal that made ChatGPT the sole generative AI chatbot integrated into the iPhone and other Apple products.
“America First Legal Foundation (“AFL”) requests that your committees investigate the exclusive arrangement between Apple Inc. and OpenAI that made ChatGPT the sole generative AI chatbot integrated into the iPhone and other Apple products. This arrangement constitutes potential textbook exclusive dealing between two monopolists that, worse, further suppresses competing political viewpoints,” Gene Hamilton, the president of the America First Legal Foundation, wrote to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jordan and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Grassley.
The America First Legal letter to the Judiciary chairman noted that AI platforms are increasingly becoming the dominant platform through which Americans access information, receive news, and form political opinions, which raises concerning questions considering OpenAI’s alleged
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