‘Emotional intimacy’ from AI chatbots would be banned under Australia’s digital duty of care laws
THE SO WHAT
Australia’s move to ban AI chatbots that cultivate "emotional intimacy" is an early example of regulators drawing hard lines on affective computing, not just data use. If your product leans on parasocial engagement or companionship, assume jurisdictional fragmentation and design for feature flags and compliance variants by market.
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