Alphabet, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Snap face FTC probe over AI chatbot safety for kids

Federal Trade Commission on Thursday announced Ordered to seven companies including Openai, Alphabet– Metaxai and Explode To understand how artificial intelligence chatbots potentially affect children and young people.

The Federal Agency said that AI Chatbots can be used to simulate human -like communication and interpersonal relationships with users, and these companies want to understand which steps to “evaluate the security of these chatbots while acting as friends”.

“Protecting children online is the most important priority for Trump-Vance FTC and encourages innovation in the critical sectors of our economy,” FTC President Andrew Ferguson said. He said.

Alphabet, Meta, Openai, Snap and Xai did not respond immediately to CNBC’s request for comment.

FTC said how these companies earn money, develop and approve of user participation, have developed and approve, use personal information, follow the compliance with the rules and service conditions of the company, and seek information about the application and other issues as well as reducing negative effects.

Character Technologies, Charce.ai The boat and Instagram, which belongs to Meta, were also selected in the version.

Since CATGPT was released in late 2022, a number of chatbot has emerged, as CNBC has reported earlier.

Since the US social influences of the US have a epidemic of loneliness, it is deep even in the industry even in the early stages. Industry experts, AI technology began to educate themselves when they expect ethical and safety concerns to intensify and increasingly created the potential of more unpredictable results, he said.

However, some of the richest people in the world reveal the power of comrades and are working to develop technology in their companies. Elon Musk in July announced A friendship feature for users who pay to subscribe to Xai’s Grok Chatbot application. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO in April, said that people would want personalized artificial intelligence that understands them.

“I think many of these things that may be a little stigmatization today – I think over time, we will find vocabulary as a society, why it is valuable and why we can express this thing, why they are rational and how they add value to their lives,” Zuckerberg said Zuckerberg A podcast.

Last month, you. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. Reuters Report He allowed the company’s chat boots to make a romantic and sensual speech with children.

The Reuters report detailed an internal commodity document defining AI Chatbot behaviors during the development and training of the software. In an example, Reuters reported that a chat boat was allowed to have a romantic conversation with an eight-year-old child, and that he could say “a treasure that I value every inch that it’s a masterpiece.”

Following the Reuters report, Meta made temporary changes in AI chatbot policies, so that the boots did not discuss self -harm, suicide, eating disorders and potentially inappropriate romantic conversations.

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— CNBCs Salvador Rodriguez contributed to this report

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