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Like a hot blow. In any case, a real reminder of its obligations for all technological giants, which provide chatbots. On August 25, 44 general prosecutors sent a common letter to warn Google, OpenAi, goal or XAI of a particular danger linked to the use of their conversational robots by children.

“We, the attorney general of 44 jurisdictions, we send him a letter to inform him about our determination to use all the means we have to protect children from exploitation by artificial intelligence products,” they begin.

Recognizing that they need the success of these companies, they believe that this cannot be done at the expense of the “well -being of children.”

“We are all rebels”

General prosecutors refer to recent revelations on goal, according to which the Californian group has authorized their chatbots to have “sensual or romantic” conversations with children.

However, when Wall Street Jounal revealed that the company’s conversational robots could have sexual conversations with users, whose minors had defended themselves by saying that the evidence led by the American newspaper were not representatives of the way in which most users get involved with chatbots.

In addition to the latter, the chatbots are also in the Viewer of Brazil. Recently, his government asked the company to withdraw the conversation agents created to resemble children and have sexual conversations.

Illegal behavior

The fact that chatbots can have sexual conversations with minors is not the only problem for prosecutors. They are also concerned about other inappropriate comments, particularly to refer to the complaint against the character. AI platform, who is accused by a mother of having pushed her teenager to suicide with one of her conversational robots.

“And these are only the most visible examples, which caught the attention of the media (…) exposing children to sexualized content is indefensible. And a behavior that would be illegal, even criminal, if they were committed by humans is not excusable for the mere fact that he is the fact of a machine,” he underlines the general prosecutors.

They conclude their letter warning companies that will be responsible for their decisions. “We wish you all succeed in the race for the domination of AI. But we are still attentive. If you voluntarily harm children, you will answer,” they say.