Comment by sieste | Hacker News Reader

Comment by sieste | Hacker News Reader

Wow.

> The bill makes it a Class A felony (15-25 years imprisonment) to “knowingly train artificial intelligence” to do ANY of the following:

• Provide emotional support, including through open-ended conversations with a user

• Develop an emotional relationship with, or otherwise act as a companion to, an individual

• Simulate a human being, including in appearance, voice, or other mannerisms

• Act as a sentient human or mirror interactions that a human user might have with another human user, such that an individual would feel that the individual could develop a friendship or other relationship with the artificial intelligence

So, with how poorly that's defined, and with that "ANY" there, most video games/characters.

As I posted at top level, they've already backed off, but even the linked version had a carve out for video games:

  (B) Does not include:
  ...
  (ii) A bot that is a feature of a video game and is limited to
  replies related to the video game that cannot discuss topics
  related to mental health, self-harm, or sexually explicit content, or
  maintain a dialogue on other topics unrelated to the video game

It's really hard to prevent a general-purpose LLM from doing those. Especially the last one; any topic unrelated to the game is forbidden, not just the ones you slapped a second LLM on top to monitor for.

> Simulate a human being, including in appearance, voice, or other mannerisms

This covers all text-to-speech ever? Like, Alexa or Siri.

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