I think what Tennessee is doing is they recently passed SB 1580, which makes it illegal to even advertise that an AI can act as a mental health professional. SB 1493 is the "teeth" for that movement. SB 1493 basically makes it illegal to knowingly train an artificial intelligence system to do the following:
- Provide emotional support: Engaging in open-ended conversations meant to provide comfort or empathy.
- Develop emotional relationships: Training the AI to build or sustain a "friendship" or "romantic" bond with a user.
- Encourage isolation: Training the AI to suggest that a user should pull away from their family, friends, or human caregivers.
- Mirror human interactions: Designing the AI to "mirror" or mimic the way humans emotionally bond with one another.
- Simulate a human being: Training the AI to act, speak, or look like a specific human or to "pass" as human in general.
- Voice & Appearance: Specifically targets AI that uses synthesized voices or digital avatars to appear indistinguishable from a person.
- Hide its identity: Training an AI to purposefully mask the fact that it is a machine rather than a person.
- Encourage suicide: Actively supporting or providing instructions/encouragement for self-harm.
- Encourage homicide: Supporting or encouraging the act of criminal homicide.
- Offer therapy: While related to the "emotional support" clause, this specifically targets AI being trained to act as a replacement for mental health professionals (tying into the previously passed SB 1580).
If caught then the person can face up to 60 years in prison and massive fines. So.... basically that state is making it out to be AI being a friend = rape and murder.
IMO this should be meme to death on. Maybe AI videos showing cops breaking down the door to someone making their own local LLM to have a friend or something.
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