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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that he's launched an investigation into the Google-backed AI chatbot startup Character.AI over its privacy and safety practices for minors."Technology companies are on notice that my office is vigorously enforcing Texas’s strong data privacy laws," said Paxton in a statement.
"We are currently reviewing the Attorney General's announcement," a Character.AI spokesperson told us. "As a company, we take the safety of our users very seriously. We welcome working with regulators and have recently announced we are launching some of the features referenced in the release, including parental controls."Whether its actions will be enough to stem a tide of highly problematic chatbots being hosted on its platform remains to be seen.Alongside Character.
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