Google has moved to place restrictions on responses its generative AI tools can provide on topics such as candidates, voting processes and election results. The restrictions will apply widely across its AI ecosystem including Search AI Overviews, YouTube AI-generated summaries for Live Chat and Gemini. For Google Ads, advertisers will be required to disclose the use of “synthetic content.”
Back in the U.S. of A, a federal judge has blocked the part of Texas’s SCOPE Act that required social media companies to filter certain kinds of “harmful content” for teens. Requirements remain in place for parental consent for social media accounts and restrictions on collecting data from the young. The judge criticized the Act’s language as vague and undefined.
The legislation was written by a Democratic state senator and was passed last week by the California state legislature. The question is whether Governor Newsom, in a state where tech lobbying power is awesome, will sign it — and he has until the end of the month to decide. Some say the measure, which mandates safety testing, will drive AI innovation from the state.
CDP and data solutions provider Zeotap is adding the ID5 ID to its identity graph. The ID5 identifier supports individual-level programmatic ad targeting without relying on third-party cookies, extending the reach of Zeotap ad segments.