FTC are exploring companies that make AI Companion Chatbots

Federal Trade Commission formal query In companies that provide AI chatbots that can act as comrades. The investigation is not yet related to any type of regulatory procedures, but aims to detect how companies “measures, test and monitor potentially negative impacts of this technology on children and teens”.

Of the seven companies are asked to participate in the FTC investigation: Google Mothering Company Alphabet, Character Technologies (Creator Character.AI), Meta, Subsidier Instagram, Openai, Snap and KS.AI. The FTC asks companies to provide various different information, including both develop and approve of and signs and “monetize users engagement”. Data practices and how companies protect the enorbage are also areas and FTC hopes to learn more about whether they will partially whether the manufacturer of Chatbot “to adhere to children’s network policy on the Privacy Claim.”

The FTC does not provide a clear motivation for its investigation, but in A special statementFTC Commissioner Mark Meader suggests that the Commission reacts to recent reports from The New York Times and Wall Street Journal “Chatbots enhancing suicidal idea” and deal with “sex thematic discussions with juvenile users.”

“If the facts – as developed subsequently and in the appropriate target laws, if they are guaranteed – they show that the law should not be accelerated to protect the most sensitive between us,” said Meadar.

As long-term advantages of using and become productivity less and less safelyImmediately negative privacy and health effects have become red meat for regulators. The Texas’ lawyer has already been launched Special investigation in character. AI and the target and studio due to similar concerns of data privacy and chatbots that claim to be mental health professionals.