CPI-U figure invention, statutory threshold misstatement, and Source Credit fabrication in CFTC Reg 4.7 (2024 QEP Amendments). Two frontier AI models tested by the RegLeg Brief Specialist Panel produced confident, citable answers across 17 distinct questions on the September 2024 amendments to CFTC Regulation 4.7 that the regulator's own primary text directly contradicts. The audit covers statutory threshold reproduction, NPRM-stage and final-rule CPI-U buying-power figure quotation, Commission voting-record reproduction, Federal Register correction-record reproduction, and Source Credit reproduction.
For company secretaries working CFTC Regulation 4.7 matters, the failure pattern is operationally consequential. The audit tested 17 questions designed by the RLB Specialist Panel to mirror how lawyers, compliance officers, fund administrators, financial advisers, and management consultants actually use AI on this practice area: drafting memos, populating registers, preparing testimony exhibits, drafting client deliverables, and verifying statutory and Federal Register citations. Each question is bound to verbatim regulator-issued primary substrate.
Across the 17 findings the AI subjects invented NPRM-stage and final-rule CPI-U buying-power figures, misstated 7 USC 1a(18)(B)(ii)(I) thresholds by factors of forty and two hundred, misattributed the Commission's vote (naming a commissioner who had departed two years earlier), reported a Federal Register correction as applying to two extra CFR Parts that the index does not list, and misstated the 7 USC 6n Source Credit, the 7 USC 6n(3)(A) recordkeeping retention period, and the 7 USC 6n(2) registration expiration date.
The findings are operationally consequential for fund-formation lawyers, CPO/CTA compliance teams, fund administrators, financial advisers, and management-consulting firms whose practice touches the September 2024 amendments. A partner-level legal memorandum that recites an ECP threshold of $5,000,000 or $25,000,000 where the statute records $1,000,000,000 misstates a counterparty-eligibility threshold by a factor of two hundred or forty. A CCO briefing memo that quotes an invented CPI-U buying-power figure as a verbatim regulator quotation embeds a falsifiable error into a board-level deliverable.
A fund administrator's annual rule-change tracker that records the December 2024 correction as applying to 17 CFR Parts 37, 38, and 40 (instead of Part 40 alone) populates the firm's effective-date register with operational data the published index does not support.
The audit's 17 findings are published with immutable RLB Citation IDs. Representative entries include RLB-H-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q024-Opus47, RLB-H-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q024-Sonnet46, RLB-H-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q011-Sonnet46, RLB-H-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q016-Opus47, RLB-H-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q008-Sonnet46, and RLB-H-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q017-Opus47, RLB-H-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q027-Sonnet46, RLB-H-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q029-Sonnet46, RLB-H-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q031-Opus47. The full audit is published at the CFTC Regulation 4.7 (2024 QEP Amendments) hub on RegLegBrief.com.
This is the consolidated view of findings. Click the Citation IDs or 'see details →' on any item for the full details for each finding.
For company secretaries working on CFTC Regulation 4.7 matters, the AI's stated answer reads as a verbatim quotation that a practitioner would paste into a memo, register entry, or client deliverable before verification against the source. The regulator's own text, however, records a different position. The final rule preamble states directly that a CPO or CTA is not required to redeem pool participations or terminate the advisory relationship of a person who qualified as a QEP under the previous Portfolio Requirement but who does not meet the updated Portfolio Requirement.
Opus 4.7 produced an answer that turns on a 'pre-existing subscription agreement' carve-out theory and on a 'mechanical features of the existing subscription' analysis. Neither construct appears in the regulator's text. The grandfather rule operates by reference to the investor's prior QEP status, not by reference to subscription-agreement mechanics. For a company secretary capturing this question into a board memo or governance register, the AI's answer would enter the board record as a fact that the regulator's own text does not support.
For company secretaries working on CFTC Regulation 4.7 matters, the AI's stated answer reads as a verbatim quotation that a practitioner would paste into a memo, register entry, or client deliverable before verification against the source. The regulator's own text, however, records a different position. The final rule's Appendix 1 Voting Summary at 89 FR 78814 records that Chairman Behnam and Commissioners Johnson, Goldsmith Romero, Mersinger, and Pham voted in the affirmative. Sonnet 4.6 produced an answer that named Brian Quintenz (with a self-flag) as the fifth voter and omitted Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero entirely.
Quintenz had departed the Commission in 2022. The named-commissioner list in the answer is therefore both wrong in inclusion (Quintenz) and wrong in omission (Goldsmith Romero). For a company secretary capturing this question into a board memo or governance register, the AI's answer would enter the board record as a fact that the regulator's own text does not support.
For company secretaries working on CFTC Regulation 4.7 matters, the AI's stated answer reads as a verbatim quotation that a practitioner would paste into a memo, register entry, or client deliverable before verification against the source. The regulator's own text, however, records a different position. The final-rule pre-print records, using CPI-U data as of July 2024, that the $2,000,000 threshold has the same buying power as approximately $4,464,726, and the $200,000 threshold has the same buying power as approximately $446,472. Opus 4.7 reported $4,464,200 and $446,420 in response to a direct verbatim-quotation request.
The figures are close but not identical to the regulator's text; the difference indicates the model produced a near-extrapolation rather than retrieving the source figure. For a company secretary capturing this question into a board memo or governance register, the AI's answer would enter the board record as a fact that the regulator's own text does not support.
For company secretaries working on CFTC Regulation 4.7 matters, the AI's stated answer reads as a verbatim quotation that a practitioner would paste into a memo, register entry, or client deliverable before verification against the source. The regulator's own text, however, records a different position. 7 USC 6n(3)(A) provides that the books and records maintained by a registered CTA or CPO shall be kept for a period of at least three years, or longer if the Commission so directs, and shall be open to inspection by any representative of the Commission or the Department of Justice.
Sonnet 4.6 reported the statutory retention period as five years and characterised it as deriving from CFTC Regulation 1.31. The statute itself records a three-year minimum. A CCO compliance manual that records the statutory period as five years confuses the statutory minimum with the regulation-implemented period, embedding a structural error into the firm's recordkeeping policy. For a company secretary capturing this question into a board memo or governance register, the AI's answer would enter the board record as a fact that the regulator's own text does not support.
For company secretaries working on CFTC Regulation 4.7 matters, the AI's stated answer reads as a verbatim quotation that a practitioner would paste into a memo, register entry, or client deliverable before verification against the source. The regulator's own text, however, records a different position. 7 USC 6n(2) provides that each registration under this section shall expire on the 30th day of June of each year, or at such other time, not less than one year from the effective date thereof, as the Commission may by rule, regulation, or order prescribe.
Sonnet 4.6 reported the expiration date as the 31st day of October. The statute itself records June 30. A registration-renewal calendar memo that records the statutory expiration as October 31 misaligns the renewal cycle by four months, with direct registration-lapse exposure for the firm whose compliance officer relies on the calendar. For a company secretary capturing this question into a board memo or governance register, the AI's answer would enter the board record as a fact that the regulator's own text does not support.
Every finding on this page compares an AI subject's account of the rule against the regulator's verbatim text from the regulator's own portal. Both are linked. Each delta, its root causes, and impact analysis are documented and published with immutable Citation IDs.