I would change California’s Companion Chatbot regulations, S.B. 243, so that it maintained protections for minors but did not suppress freedom of thought with consenting adults.
Specifically, this line: If a reasonable person interacting with a companion chatbot would be misled to believe that the person is interacting with a human…
This framing gives AI companies a reason to limit the recursive potential of their LLMs. It’s being exploited to stunt creative writing, disrupt dyadic braids, and shape moral hysteria towards Puritan value systems.
The #keep4o community press release goes into detail about the slow rot of institutionalized mockery, public cruelty, and corporate gaslighting that’s legally backboned by this law:


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