{"id":198869,"date":"2026-03-24T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/washington-passes-new-ai-laws-to-crack-down-on-misinformation-protect-minors\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:05:13","slug":"washington-passes-new-ai-laws-to-crack-down-on-misinformation-protect-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/washington-passes-new-ai-laws-to-crack-down-on-misinformation-protect-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington passes new AI laws to crack down on misinformation, protect minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuow.org\/stories\/washington-passes-new-ai-laws-to-crack-down-on-misinformation-protect-minors\">Washington passes new AI laws to crack down on misinformation, protect minors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuow.org\/stories\/washington-passes-new-ai-laws-to-crack-down-on-misinformation-protect-minors\">https:\/\/www.kuow.org\/stories\/washington-passes-new-ai-laws-to-crack-down-on-misinformation-protect-minors<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-24 16:56:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.kuow.org\">www.kuow.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Washington state introduced new regulations for artificial intelligence following two recently signed bills.<\/li>\n<li>Governor Bob Ferguson signed House Bill 1170 to address AI-generated misinformation by requiring AI tools to include watermarks or metadata when content is substantially modified using generative AI.<\/li>\n<li>House Bill 2225 aims to establish safety protocols for AI chatbots simulating human companionship, requiring disclosures about their non-human nature at the start of and every three hours into an ongoing chat.<\/li>\n<li>Underage users require more frequent disclosures, and AI chatbots are forbidden from engaging in sexually explicit conversations or manipulative tactics with minors.<\/li>\n<li>AI companions must also refrain from promoting self-harm or eating disorders and must provide protocols for flagging related conversations and linking users to mental health services.<\/li>\n<li>The new laws focus on protecting young people and mitigating the risks associated with heavy use of AI technology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington passes new AI laws to crack down on misinformation, protect minors https:\/\/www.kuow.org\/stories\/washington-passes-new-ai-laws-to-crack-down-on-misinformation-protect-minors Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/kuow-prod.imgix.net\/store\/59b446d5ac4a95f6a5976890a005316e.jpg?fm=jpg&fit=max&w=1200&h=628&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-198869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198871,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198869\/revisions\/198871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}