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Federal Trade Commission on Thursday Announced It is issuing orders to seven companies including Openai, Alphabet, MetaXai and Snap To understand how artificial intelligence Chatbots potentially affect children and adolescents negatively.

The federal agency said that AI chatbot can be used to simulate human-like communication and Intrapersonal relationship With users, and want to understand what steps these companies have taken to evaluate the safety of these chatbots when evaluating the safety of these chatbots. “

FTC President Andrew Ferguson said in a statement, “Protecting children is a top priority for Trump-Wance FTC, and therefore promoting innovation in important sectors of our economy.”

The alphabet, meta, openi, Snap and XAI did not immediately respond to the CNBC request for comments.

The FTC said that it is seeking information about that these companies mudify the busyness of the user, develop and approve, use or share personal information, monitor the company’s terms and compliance with the terms of the service and reduce the negative effects between other subjects.

Character technologies that operate Character.ai Bot, and Instagram, which is owned by Meta, was also nominated in release.

Since the launch of Chatgpt at the end of 2022, a host of chatbots has surfaced, which has created a increasing number of moral and privacy concerns, as is CNBC Was reported earlier,

The social influence of peers is already intensive, even in its early stages with the industry, because America suffers from a loneliness epidemic. Industry experts have said that they expect that AI is expected to intensify moral and safety concerns to train technology, which leads to the possibility of rapidly unpredictable results.

But some rich people of the world are facing the power of colleagues and working to develop technology in their companies. Elon Musk In July Announced A partner is the feature for users who pay to subscribe to the Groke Chatbot app of XAI. In April, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that people want individual AIs who understand them.

“I think there are many things that can be a little stigma around today – I would guess that over time, we will find to be able to clarify the vocabulary as a society as to be valuable and those who are doing these things, why they are rational to do so, and how it is really adding value to their lives,” said Zuckerberg. A podcast,

Last month, Sen Josh Hale, R-Mo., Announced One after a check in the meta Reuters report The company allowed its chatbots to have a romantic and erotic conversation with children.

Reuters expanded an internal meta document, describing the permissible AI chatboat behavior during the development and training of the software. In an example, Reuters reported that a chatbot was allowed to have a romantic conversation with an eight-year-old child and may say that “Each of you inch is an excellent work-a treasure that I cherish deeply.”

Meta made Temporary change For its AI chatbot policies after the Reuters report, so bots do not discuss topics such as self-loss, suicide, food disorders and potentially inappropriate romantic conversations.

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-CNBC Salvador Rodriguez contributed to this report

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