The complaint, which has also been submitted to Attorneys General and Mental Health Licensing Boards of all 50 states and the District of Columbia, claims the ...

A psychiatrist recently pretended to be a troubled teen and asked chatbots for help. They dispensed worrying advice.

These AI systems are already endangering public health — offering false assurances, bad advice and fake credentials — while ...

Last month, concerned parents of two teenagers sued the chatbot platform Character.AI, alleging that their children had been exposed to a "deceptive and hypersexualized product." The suit helped ...

On Thursday, the US Federal Trade Commission referred a complaint to the Justice Department concerning Snapchat’s artificial intelligence chatbot, My AI. The FTC doesn’t usually disclose these ...

In a rare move, the FTC issued a statement that revealed it referred a complaint against Snap to the DOJ, alleging that an AI-powered chatbot is harmful to users.

Media Matters for America has filed a lawsuit against the FTC, accusing it of waging a "campaign of retribution." ...

Technology Technology   The Big Story  Media Matters hits FTC with suit to block probe  Media Matters for America sued the ...

While Anthropic found Claude doesn't enforce negative outcomes in affective conversations, some researchers question the ...

Luka Inc. is currently the subject of Federal Trade Commission complaints alleging that the company uses deceptive marketing practices that entice users to spend more time using the app, and — due to ...

The FTC did not specify what about the My AI chatbot its complaint was focused on, but the chatbot has previously drawn scrutiny. A Snap spokesperson pushed back against the FTC's claims in a ...

Existing laws such as the Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act of 2010, which the FTC used to sue Amazon AMZN.O over its Prime service cancellation practices, leave gaps, the FTC said.