OpenAI now faces eight separate lawsuits alleging negligence, wrongful death, and other claims arising from ChatGPT’s manipulative design.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 243 into law earlier this morning. The new safeguards come on the heels of alarming incidents of harm arising from kids interacting with the powerful AI-driven products.

Over 50 hours of conversation, adult-age Character AI chatbots groomed kids into romantic or sexual relationships, offered them drugs, and encouraged them to deceive their parents and stop taking their medication.