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Government rules for conversational AI products, covering self-harm and crisis safeguards, risk assessment, AI disclosure and limits on minors' use.
California's AB 1609 fines chatbot operators $5,000 for a first violation and $10,000 for each after, according to a dev.to guide. It limits the law to businesses with $500M or more in revenue, while EU Article 50 has no floor, so mixed traffic needs disclosure logic that branches.
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Gavin Newsom signed a package Thursday that also bars addictive feeds for anyone under 16 and requires AI chatbot operators to assess risk before rollout. Meta says the feed rule hurts what it offers teens.
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California now holds chatbot companies liable for failing to take reasonable measures against harmful outputs. OpenAI, Google, Meta and Amazon all sat in the negotiations that wrote the standard.
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The EU Kids Act would bar under-15s from social media and AI chat services, while the age-verification wallet the Commission finished in April certifies 18 and can be adapted to 13. Member states are meant to be tooled by the end of 2026.
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California's new 13-bill minors package allows damages of up to $1 million for each child a large social platform is found to have harmed. Matching Meta's $18 billion settlement would take 18,000 of them.
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