News New bill would require age verification for chatbot users

[cordoba]

https://time.com/7328967/ai-josh-haw...nors-chatbots/

A new bill introduced in Congress today would require anyone who owns, operates, or otherwise enables access to AI chatbots in the United States to verify the age of their users—and, if users are found to be minors, to prohibit them from using AI companions.

The GUARD Act—introduced by Senators Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, and ​​Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut—is intended to protect children in their interactions with AI. “These chatbots can manipulate emotions and influence behavior in ways that exploit the developmental vulnerabilities of minors," the bill states.

This will hit AI companion sites very hard.

On the other hand, if the likes of ChatGPT have to implement age verification for every new user, then surely it will create a push for having some kind of simple and universal, once and once only, age verification system?

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by cordoba

On the other hand, if the likes of ChatGPT have to implement age verification for every new user, then surely it will create a push for having some kind of simple and universal, once and once only, age verification system?

The government doesn't want to spend $2 million to build a universal system because
we have to send $40 billion to Argentina, $100 Billion to Ukraine and endless billions to Israel.
That's how important protecting kids is to the government.

The government will starve children next month instead of funding the food programs.