{"id":150751,"date":"2025-09-12T05:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/150751\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T05:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:48:15","slug":"meta-openai-face-ftc-inquiry-on-chatbot-impact-on-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/150751\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta, OpenAI Face FTC Inquiry on Chatbot Impact on Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Federal Trade Commission ordered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/GOOGL:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Alphabet Inc.<\/a>\u2019s Google, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/1554630D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">OpenAI Inc.<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/META:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Meta Platforms Inc.<\/a> and four other makers of artificial intelligence chatbots to turn over information about the impacts of their technologies on kids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The antitrust and consumer protection agency said Thursday that it sent the orders to gather information to study how firms measure, test and monitor their chatbots and what steps they have taken to limit their use by kids and teens. The companies also include Meta\u2019s Instagram, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/SNAP:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Snap Inc.<\/a>, Elon Musk\u2019s xAI and Character Technologies Inc., the developer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/2231826D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Character.AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Federal Trade Commission ordered Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google, OpenAI Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and four other makers of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[13564,181,28,2356,92968,24352,28227,9746,92967,22997,111,92969,74],"class_list":["post-150751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-california","tag-character-technologies-inc","tag-consumer-protection","tag-elon-reeve-musk","tag-law","tag-meta-platforms-inc-class-a","tag-openai-inc","tag-politics","tag-snap-inc-a","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}