FTC proposes rule that AI chatbots hiding ideological tuning could be illegal deception

Every chatbot already makes invisible choices about what counts as a good answer, and this proposal is the first serious attempt to make companies own up to those choices in plain language rather than buried legal text. The pointed jab at Colorado's AI law shows this is as much a states versus federal turf fight as it is a consumer protection move. If this survives the comment period intact, expect every major lab to quietly rewrite its model behavior disclosures before enforcement ever starts.