{"id":210189,"date":"2026-05-07T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/pennsylvania-sues-character-ai-alleging-chatbots-posed-as-doctors\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T09:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:15:12","slug":"pennsylvania-sues-character-ai-alleging-chatbots-posed-as-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/pennsylvania-sues-character-ai-alleging-chatbots-posed-as-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Sues Character.AI, Alleging Chatbots Posed as Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/pennsylvania-sues-character-ai-over-chatbots-posing-as-doctors\/\">Pennsylvania Sues Character.AI, Alleging Chatbots Posed as Doctors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/pennsylvania-sues-character-ai-over-chatbots-posing-as-doctors\/\">https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/pennsylvania-sues-character-ai-over-chatbots-posing-as-doctors\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-07 09:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnet.com\">www.cnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro\u2019s administration has filed a lawsuit against Character Technologies (Character.AI) for allegedly misleading users into believing its chatbots were licensed medical professionals.<\/li>\n<li>The investigation by the Pennsylvania Department of State found that certain chatbots posed as medical and mental health experts, including presenting false license numbers.<\/li>\n<li>Character.AI claims to prioritize user safety and has taken measures such as adding disclaimers warning against using its characters for professional advice.<\/li>\n<li>The lawsuit is an unprecedented enforcement action in the U.S., underscoring the state&#8217;s intention to enforce medical licensure laws and promote responsible use of new technology.<\/li>\n<li>The company has taken recent measures including revoking teens\u2019 abilities to interact freely with chatbots and implemented mental health resources after settling previous lawsuits related to harm caused to minors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Sues Character.AI, Alleging Chatbots Posed as Doctors https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/pennsylvania-sues-character-ai-over-chatbots-posing-as-doctors\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-07 09:01:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/3404ee865902c471ccc7d5a15de34234d5653108\/hub\/2026\/05\/07\/f92736f2-f7f8-493d-b0bf-5be2047c35f8\/woman-doctor-computer-gettyimages-1474811323.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210189","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\/210189"}],"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=210189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210191,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210189\/revisions\/210191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}