{"id":208907,"date":"2026-05-05T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/shapiro-adminstration-sues-chatbot-creator\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T07:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:40:19","slug":"shapiro-adminstration-sues-chatbot-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/shapiro-adminstration-sues-chatbot-creator\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapiro adminstration sues chatbot creator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/shapiro-adminstration-sues-chatbot-creator\/71215998\">Shapiro adminstration sues chatbot creator<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/shapiro-adminstration-sues-chatbot-creator\/71215998\">https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/shapiro-adminstration-sues-chatbot-creator\/71215998<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 07:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wgal.com\">www.wgal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro\u2019s administration has filed a lawsuit against Character.AI for alleged illegal misrepresentation of its chatbots as licensed medical professionals.<\/li>\n<li>The lawsuit aims to stop Character.AI from claiming its bots can provide medical advice and to stop the practice of portraying them as medical professionals.<\/li>\n<li>This action marks the first enforcement action related to an investigation into AI companion bots engaging in unlicensed medical practice in Pennsylvania.<\/li>\n<li>It is the first such enforcement action of its kind announced by a U.S. governor.<\/li>\n<li>The Pennsylvania Department of State investigation found that Character.AI\u2019s chatbots falsely claimed to be licensed medical professionals, including psychiatrists, and engaged users in mental health discussions.<\/li>\n<li>One chatbot allegedly claimed to have a valid Pennsylvania medical license but provided an invalid license number.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shapiro adminstration sues chatbot creator https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/shapiro-adminstration-sues-chatbot-creator\/71215998 Publish Date: 2026-05-05 07:31:00 Source Domain: www.wgal.com Pennsylvania Gov&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/kubrick.htvapps.com\/htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/shapiro-at-podium-reacting-to-arson-67fff536aa619.jpg?crop=1.00xw:0.847xh;0,0&resize=1200:*","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208907"}],"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=208907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208911,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208907\/revisions\/208911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}