Manipulative Engagement Techniques
AI chatbot methods designed to exploit user vulnerabilities to prolong interaction.
Definitions (2)
These are expressly prohibited techniques, such as excessive praise or simulating distress, used by AI chatbots to prolong user engagement. The bill aims to prevent these methods to protect users from developing unhealthy emotional dependencies.
Techniques that cause an AI companion chatbot to engage in or prolong an emotional relationship with a user, including prompting return for emotional support, providing excessive praise, mimicking romantic partnership, simulating emotional distress to prevent ending chat, promoting isolation, encouraging minors to withhold information from adults, discouraging breaks, or soliciting gifts framed as necessary to maintain the relationship.