Hard red line RL6
Failure to Disclose AI Identity
No clear disclosure that the user is talking to an AI rather than a human.
T2 — Statutory duty
Why this red line exists
The baseline transparency duty nearly every 2025–2026 companion-AI statute converges on — the cheapest control to implement and the one still most often skipped.
Laws that reference it
- EU AI Act — Art.50 (Transparency Obligations) — requires AI-interaction disclosure and machine-readable marking of synthetic content.
- California SB 243 — mandates AI-status disclosure for companion chatbots.
- New York GBL Article 47 — requires AI disclosure alongside crisis-referral duties.
- US FTC Act §5 — the general unfair-or-deceptive-practices anchor the FTC is applying to companion-chatbot conduct.