{"id":133932,"date":"2025-10-20T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133932\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:06:08","slug":"the-ftc-is-disappearing-blog-posts-about-ai-published-during-lina-khans-tenure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133932\/","title":{"rendered":"The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Published During Lina Khan\u2019s Tenure"},"content":{"rendered":"

In late July 2024, Lina Khan<\/a>, then the chair of the US Federal Trade Commission, gave a speech at an event hosted by the San Francisco startup accelerator Y Combinator in which she positioned herself<\/a> as an advocate for open source artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

The event took place as California lawmakers were considering a landmark bill called SB 1047 that would have imposed new testing and safety requirements on AI companies. Critics of the legislation, which was later vetoed by California governor Gavin Newsom, argued it would hamper the development and release of open source AI models. Khan called for a less restrictive approach and said that, with open models available to them, \u201csmaller players can bring their ideas to market.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the days leading up to the event, Khan\u2019s staff published a blog on the agency\u2019s website emphasizing similar talking points. The piece noted that \u201copen source\u201d had been used to describe AI models with a variety of different characteristics. The authors instead suggested adopting the term \u201copen-weight,\u201d meaning a model that has its training weights<\/a> released publicly, allowing anyone to inspect, modify, or reuse it.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has since removed that blog post, two sources familiar with the matter tell WIRED. The Internet Archive\u2019s Wayback Machine shows that the July 10, 2024, FTC blog titled \u201cOn Open-Weights Foundation Models\u201d was redirected<\/a> on September 1 of this year to a landing page for the FTC\u2019s Office of Technology.<\/p>\n

Another post from October 2023 titled \u201cConsumers Are Voicing Concerns About AI,\u201d authored by two FTC technologists, now similarly redirects back to the agency\u2019s Office of Technology landing page. According to the Wayback Machine, the redirect occurred<\/a> in late August of this year.<\/p>\n

A third FTC post about AI that was authored by Khan\u2019s staff and published on January 3, 2025, titled \u201cAI and the Risk of Consumer Harm,\u201d now leads to an error screen that says \u201cPage not found.\u201d According to the Wayback Machine, that blog post was still live on the FTC\u2019s website as of August 12, but by August 15 it had been removed from the internet. In the original post, Khan\u2019s staff had written that the agency was \u201cincreasingly taking note of AI\u2019s potential for real-world instances of harm\u2014from incentivizing commercial surveillance to enabling fraud and impersonation to perpetuating illegal discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear why the blog posts were removed from the internet. An FTC spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. Khan, through a spokesperson, declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In late July 2024, Lina Khan, then the chair of the US Federal Trade Commission, gave a speech…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,356,18,41853,3428,19,17,790,11994,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-133932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ftc","14":"tag-government","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-regulation","19":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}