ElevenLabs builds agent voices on a self-attested consent claim
ElevenLabs' documentation and terms describe agent voices, cloning, and the consent language that governs them.
The archive
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June 6, 2017
A small trial gave Woebot's chatbot claims their evidence template
A 70-person 2017 JMIR trial found reduced depression symptoms in college students using the Woebot chatbot for two weeks.
April 10, 2025
Testers found companion apps' teen guardrails easy to bypass
Common Sense Media's 2025 assessment with Stanford rated social AI companions unacceptable risk for minors.
September 16, 2025
OpenAI linked parent and teen accounts with distress alerts
OpenAI's own posts detail linked accounts, content safeguards and a notification system for signs of teen distress.
An open-source front end runs companion chat off-platform
SillyTavern's own repository states it is locally installed, vendor-agnostic and collects no user data on its own servers.
October 22, 2024
Character.AI rolled out a separate model and limits for teens
Two company posts from October and December 2024 detail a teen-specific model, session notifications and a crisis pop-up.
March 31, 2023
Analyst estimates of companion app spending are not disclosures
Two analyst firms' own posts show how download and spend estimates are built, and why they are not company disclosures.
July 29, 2025
EU guidance names a companion app as a manipulation example
The Commission's Article 5 guidelines cite an AI companionship app as an example of prohibited emotional manipulation.
October 29, 2025
Character.AI ended open-ended chat for users under 18
The company's own announcement and its follow-up detail a phased removal of teen chat and a new age-assurance system.
September 16, 2025
A Senate subcommittee heard parents and experts on chatbot harm
The September 2025 hearing record gathers testimony from parents, a psychologist and a children's media group.
A platform explains what a character definition controls
Character.AI's own creator guide states that defined attributes shape behaviour but do not guarantee it, as retrieved 16 September 2026.
Exporting and deleting a companion chat is not uniform
Character.AI, Replika and Nomi's help pages, as retrieved on 16 September 2026, describe different deletion timeframes and export routes.
July 14, 2025
A UK survey found vulnerable children favour companion chatbots
Internet Matters found most UK children use AI chatbots weekly, and vulnerable children were far likelier to treat them as companions.
August 26, 2025
A lawsuit and a same-day statement described the same safety gap
The Raine complaint and OpenAI's own post both describe safeguards weakening over long conversations.
October 13, 2025
California required companion chatbots to disclose and refer
SB 243 defines companion chatbots and requires disclosure, self-harm protocols and minor safeguards from 1 January 2026.
VRM and Live2D encode different rules for who owns a digital face
The VRM specification and Live2D's licenses show how differently each format records who may use an avatar.
July 12, 2024
The EU AI Act bans manipulation and requires bot disclosure
Article 5 bans manipulative and vulnerability-exploiting systems from 2 February 2025; Article 50's bot-disclosure duty applies from 2 August 2026.
April 3, 2023
A UK regulator questioned a chatbot's pre-launch risk check
The ICO's 2023 preliminary notice says Snap's My AI risk assessment did not adequately weigh harm to minors.
September 27, 2023
Meta hired celebrities to voice AI characters, then moved on
Meta's 2023 launch names celebrity-embodied AI characters; its 2024 follow-up shifts the product to user-made ones instead.
LOVOT sells affection with a price tag and a required subscription
Groove X's and LOVOT's own pages describe a robot built only for affection and sold with a required monthly fee.